College Physics (10th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321902788
Author: Hugh D. Young, Philip W. Adams, Raymond Joseph Chastain
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 4, Problem 46GP
|| You leave the doctor’s office after your annual checkup and recall that you weighed 683 N in her office. You, then get into an elevator that. conveniently, has a scale. Find the magnitude and direction of the elevator’s acceleration if the scale reads (a) 725 N, (b) 595 N
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