A 60-kg woman in an elevator is accelerating upward at a rate of 1.2 m/s 2 .
Question:
A 60-kg woman in an elevator is accelerating upward at a rate of 1.2 m/s2.
a. What is the net force acting upon the woman?
b. What is the gravitational force acting upon the woman?
c. What is the normal force pushing upward on the woman’s feet?
Step by Step Answer:
The following free body diagram shows that a passenger is moving up in an elevator The different forces acting on the man are the normal force N in th...View the full answer
Physics of Everyday Phenomena A conceptual Introduction to physics
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