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woman stands on a weighing scale in a non - moving elevator. When the elevator started to move, the scale momentarily reads only 0.60 of the person’s normal weight. Find acceleration (m/s^2)

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Chapter4: Dynamics: Force And Newton's Laws Of Motion

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2. A woman stands on a
weighing scale in a non -
moving elevator. When the
elevator started to move, the
scale momentarily reads only
0.60 of the person’s normal
weight.
Find acceleration (m/s^2)

3. Several boxes were placed on
top of a table and stacked on
each other. The masses are
the following: 2 kg, 1 kg, 0.5 kg,
0.2 kg and 0.1 kg. (A) Find the
normal force (N) that the table
exerts on the 2 kg box
B) Find the normal force (N)
that the 2 kg box exerts on
the 1 kg box

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