A wooden block is floating in water contained in a beaker . If the beaker is placed in free falling elevator during the free fall the upthrust on the block will be?

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Solution

As there is no observable weight of the block during the free fall, it will not displace any water in the beaker. So the up thrust on the block during free fall is zero.

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