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You walk into an elevator, step onto a scale, and push the “up” button. You recall that your normal weight is 625 N. Draw a free-body diagram, (a) When the elevator has an upward acceleration of magnitude 2.50 m/s2, what does the scale read? (b) If you hold a 3.85-kg package by a light vertical string, what will be the tension in this string when the elevator accelerates as in part (a)?
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