A person of mass M = 60 kg lifts an object of mass m = 10 kg upward with acceleration a. If the magnitude of the normal force that the person feels from the floor the person is standing on is 796 N, what is the acceleration a? (Neglect the mass of the accelerating arm of the person.) In answering the problem to get the acceleration a, draw the free-body diagrams for the problem.

A person of mass M = 60 kg lifts an object of mass m = 10 kg upward with acceleration a. If the magnitude of the normal force that the person feels from the floor the person is standing on is 796 N, what is the acceleration a? (Neglect the mass of the accelerating arm of the person.) In answering the problem to get the acceleration a, draw the free-body diagrams for the problem.

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