A person weighs a fish of mass m

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2022-08-06

A person weighs a fish of mass m = 40.0 N on a spring scale attached to the ceiling of an elevator. Show that if the elevator accelerates either upward or downward,

 with a = 2.00 m/s2, the spring scale gives a reading that is different from the weight of the fish.

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