College Physics: Explore And Apply, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)
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Chapter 3, Problem 7RQ
Review Question 3.7 Three friends argue about the type of information a bathroom scale reports: Eugenia says that it reads the force that Earth exerts on a person, Alan says that it reads the sum of the forces exerted on the person by Earth and the scale, and Mike says that the scale reads the force that the person exerts on the scale. Who do you think is correct? Why?
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