Homework Help: Physics

Posted by sam on Monday, September 24, 2012 at 11:22pm.

A person is standing on a spring bathroom scale on the ﬂoor of an elevator which is moving up and slowing down at the rate of 2.73 m/s^2.
The acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s^2.
If the person’s mass is 75.2 kg, what does the scale read? Answer in units of n

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