a 75.0-kg man (weight of about 165 lb) standing on a bathroom scale in an elevator. Calculate the scalereading: (a) if the elevator accelerates upward at a rate of 1.20 m/s2, and (b) if the elevator moves upward at a constantspeed of 1 m/s.

a 75.0-kg man (weight of about 165 lb) standing on a bathroom scale in an elevator. Calculate the scalereading: (a) if the elevator accelerates upward at a rate of 1.20 m/s2, and (b) if the elevator moves upward at a constantspeed of 1 m/s.

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a 75.0-kg man (weight of about 165 lb) standing on a bathroom scale in an elevator. Calculate the scale
reading: (a) if the elevator accelerates upward at a rate of 1.20 m/s²
, and (b) if the elevator moves upward at a constant
speed of 1 m/s.

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