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The general rule of downward pressure is "the pressure upon the bottom of a vessel containing a fluid is independent of the shape of the vessel, and is equal to the weight of a prism of the fluid whose base has the same area as the bottom of the vessel, and whose altitude is the distance between the bottom and the upper surface of the fluid, plus the pressure per unit of area upon the upper surface of the fluid multiplied by the area of the bottom of the vessel."

General Law

The general rule of downward pressure is "the pressure upon the bottom of a vessel containing a fluid…

In image a, the pressure at the bottom is the same as the pressure at the top of the cylinder. If the area at the bottom and the depth of the liquid of image b is the same as image a, then the pressures will be the same for both.

Downward Pressure

In image a, the pressure at the bottom is the same as the pressure at the top of the cylinder. If the…