A Bucket Resting on the Floor of an Elevator Contains $\Delta$

question 70

Multiple Choice

A bucket resting on the floor of an elevator contains an incompressible fluid of density .When the elevator has a downward acceleration of magnitude a the pressure difference between two points in a fluid, separated by a vertical distance $\Delta$ h, is given by:

• A)" a\(\Delta\)h"
• B)" g\(\Delta\)h"
• C)" (g + a)\(\Delta\)h"
• D)" (g - a)\(\Delta\)h"
• E)" ga\(\Delta\)h"

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