Question

A body is floating in a given liquid with half of its volume above the surface of the given liquid. If the body is slightly pushed into the liquid, then the body,

• A. sinks in the liquid and settles at the bottom.
• B. come back to its position after some time.
• C. keeps oscillating in vertical direction.
• D. it jumps into the air and falls on the liquid.

Answer 1

The correct option is B come back to its position after some time.

Before pushing body was in the position of equilibrium so if we disturbs the eqm than with the passage of time it would come back to its eqm position .

so option (B) is correct