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Posted by UD on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 9:45pm.

A person with a mass of 110 kg is standing on a scale that reads weight in newtons inside of an elevator. If the elevator accelerates upward at 3.4 m/s2 , what does the scale read?

Physics - drwls, Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 10:42pm
[(g + 3.4)/g]*M g = 13.2*110
= _____ Newtons

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