The free surface of oil in a tanker, at rest, is horizontal. If the tanker starts accelerating the free surface will be titled by an angle θ. If the acceleration is a m s–2, what will be the slope of the free surface?
The free surface of oil in a tanker, at rest, is horizontal. If the tanker starts accelerating the free surface will be titled by an angle θ. If the acceleration is a m s–2, what will be the slope of the free surface?
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Consider the diagram where a tanker is accelerating with acceleration a.

Consider an elementary particle of the fluid of mass dm.
The acting forces on the particle with respect to the tanker are shown above.
Now, balancing forces (as t
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