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.