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Fluid statics
Question

A boy carries a fish in one hand and a bucket ( not full ) of water in the other hand. If he places the fish in the bucket , the weight now carried by him ( assume that water doesn’t spill )

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Solution

In either case he carries same mass and hence same weight. ( Buoyant force is internal force of bucket and fish system )

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