Question

You are in an elevator which accelerates upward. You are standing on the scale. Your normal weight is w = 645 N .

A) Make a free-body diagram of your body if the elevator has an acceleration a = 2.32 m/s2 .

B)Find the scale reading with the conditions given in part (A)?

C)If you start holding a 3.90 kgkg package by a light vertical string, make a free-body diagram of the package.

Draw the force vectors with their tails at the dot. The orientation of your vectors will be graded. The exact lengths of your vectors will not be graded but the relative length of one to the other will be graded.

Answer 1