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(a) What is hydrostatic paradox? (b) W...

(a) What is hydrostatic paradox?
(b) What determines the pressure due to a liquid : its depth or the total quiantity of liquid?

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The pressure exerted by a liquid column depends only on the height of liquid column and not on the shape of the containing vessel
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