Physics: What does the free-body diagram look like and What does the Scale read in N?

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A 77kg person stands on a scale in an elevator. The elevator and person are accelerating downward at -1.3 m/s^2 

What does the free-body diagram look like and what does the scale read in N?

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In this case the elevator and the person are initially at rest at a higher floor.Here the acceleration is negative.It means that the elevator speeds down in the downward direction towards a lower floor.The inertia of the person prefer to stay at rest ,so the elevator floor and the scale effevtively drop out a little bit from underneath the person as the elevator accelerated down.

The free body diagram is shown below:-

Weight of the man=mg=77*9.81 =755.37N

Force acting=77*1.3=-100.1N

Scale reading=755.37N-100.1N=655.27N(ans)

I hope this would help you,but if you have any doubt regarding this,you can surely ask. :)


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