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Question

An open water tanker moving on a horizontal straight road has a cubical block of cork floating over its surface. If the tanker has an acceleration of a as shown in the figure, the acceleration of the cork w.r.t. container is (ignore viscosity) -    

Options

A.Zero
B.
C.
D.a

Solution

marel = mgsinθ − macosθ   
but for water surface tan θ = a/g

⇒ arel = 0

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