Scales and Elevators
Suppose you are in an elevator standing on a scale.
Use a system schema and free body diagrams of the scale and you to determine what the scale would read for the following situations:
A. If the elevator is descending at 4.9 m/s.
B. If the elevator has a downward acceleration of 4.9 m/s/s.
C. If the elevator has an upward acceleration of 4.9 m/s/s.