Bottle Stability – Rankers Physics
Topic: Center of Mass , Momentum and Collision
Subtopic: Calculation of Center of Mass

Bottle Stability


Assertion (A): A half filled bottle is more stable than a fully filled identical bottle when kept in upright position.
Reason (R): A half filled bottle has lesser mass than a fully filled bottle. (The fluid and bottles are identical).
 
Both (A) & (R) are true and the (R) is the correct explanation of the (A)
Both (A) & (R) are true but the (R) is not the correct explanation of the (A)
(A) is true but (R) is false
(A) is true and (R) is false

Solution:

Assertion (A) is false because a fully-filled bottle has a lower center of gravity and lacks the destabilizing sloshing effect of a partially-filled bottle.


Reason (R) is true as a half-filled bottle naturally contains less mass

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