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Describe an experiment to show that a liquid exerts pressure at the bottom of the container in which its is kept.

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A LIQUID EXERTS PRESSURE AT THE BOTTOM OF ITS CONTAINER :
take a balloon and tie it at the lower end of a glass tube and hold vertically as in fig (a) pour some water in the tube , balloon bulges our as in
(b) Because water column exerts pressure $$ ( \therefore $$ liquid has weight at its bottom . force on balloon is equal to the weight of Thrust water column which is called the thrust P = Thrust / Area
This shows that a liquid exerts pressure at the bottom of the container in which it is kept.

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