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Pranav Jha
Nov4-10, 02:06 AM
The forces of a liquid pressing against a surface add up to a net force that is perpendicular to the surface.

I cannot visualize this. Could someone help me out diagrammatically here?

Pranav Jha
Nov4-10, 02:33 AM
The diagram given in my book is a triangle placed in water and three perpendicular force vectors are shown but i don't why the other non-perpendicular vectors haven't been shown. The book mentions that the non-perpendicular components cancel each other but
again i cannot picture them canceling each other, duh!