Stand on a bathroom scale and read your weight. When you lift one foot up so you’re standing on one foot, does the reading change? Does a scale read force or pressure?

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Stand on a bathroom scale and read your weight. When you lift one foot up so you’re standing on one foot, does the reading change? Does a scale read force or pressure?

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Answer: yes the reading changes,

And a scale reads pressure not force

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Akhilesh Singh answered May 13, 2021

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