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A body floats in a liquid contained in a beaker. The whole system as shown in Figure falls freely under gravity. The upthrust on the body is

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when the system falls freely under gravity , the apparent weight of the body in the system become zero. So the upthrust on the body due to the liquid becomes zero.
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