Answer:
The answer to the question is
The height of the mercury fluid column remain the same.
Explanation:
The pressure, P in a column of fluid of height, h is given by
P = (Density p)×(height of fluid column h)×(gravity g)
Therefore, when the diameter is doubled we have
Density of the mercury in the tube with twice the diameter = (Mass of mercury)/(volume of mercury) where the volume of mercury = h×pi×(Diameter×2)^2/4 = h×pi×Diameter^2. Therefore the volume increases by a factor of 4 and therefore the mass increases by a factor of 4 which means that the density remains the same hence
P = p×h1×g = p×h2×g Therefore h1 = h2
The height of the fluid column remain the same
