When the beaker is dipped into the water, the force which must be applied to it to achieve this will increase with the depth to which the beaker is dipped, since the upthrust will increase. However this force will not be the same in the two cases. In the first case the air inside the beaker is compressed and the water partly enters the beaker. Thus if the beaker be dipped to the same depth on both occasions, the volume of water displaced will be less in the first case, so the thrust will also be less than in the second case: therefore the force equalling this upthrust that must be applied to dip the beaker in the water is less in the first case, and so is the work done by this force in immersing the beaker to the same depth.