Question: The observer in the accelerating elevator of Example 5.8 would claim that the weight of the fish is T, the scale reading. This is obviously

The observer in the accelerating elevator of Example 5.8 would claim that the “weight” of the fish is T, the scale reading. This is obviously wrong. Why does this observation differ from that of a person outside the elevator, at rest with respect to the Earth?

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