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The surface of a polar liquid such as water, can be viewed as a series of dipole strung together in the stable arrangement in which dipole moment vectors are parallel to the surface and all point in the same direction. Now suppose that something presses downwards (inwards) on the surface, distorting the dipoles as shown in figure.
Then the two slanted dipoles will exert a net force in which direction ?

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downward
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upward
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none of these
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