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Chapter 6, Problem 6.5CQ
The observer in the accelerating elevator of Example 5.8 would claim that the “weight” of the fish is T, the scale reading, but this answer is obviously wrong. Why does this observation differ from that of a person outside the elevator, at rest with respect to the Earth?
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