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Chapter 29, Problem 12RCQ

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Would the springs inside a bathroom scale be more compressed or less compressed if you weighed yourself in an elevator that was moving upward at constant velocity? Downward at constant velocity?

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QUESTION:

Would the springs inside a bathroom scale be more compressed or less compressed if you weighed yourself in an elevator that was moving upward at constant velocity? Downward at constant velocity?

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We have two cases,

1.  if you weighed yourself in an elevator that moved upward at constant velocity.

2.  if you weighed yourself in an elevator that moved downward at constant velocity.

In both cases velocity is constant, it means that there is no force acting on an elevator and therefore on us or a spring in a bathroom scale in the elevator.

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