Imagine you are standing on a bathroom scale inside an elevator. What would happen to your weight reading when the elevator accelerated upward.

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Imagine you are standing on a bathroom scale inside an elevator. What would happen to your weight reading when the elevator accelerated upward.

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HMMMMMM??????

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Soffy answered Nov 18, 2022

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it would decrease i think

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