document.write( "Question 67839: I have a Physics problem but I think it involves conversion. Can anyone help?\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "A 160 lb. person has a mass of 160/32 = 5 slugs. A 160 lb. person steps into an elevator and stands on a bathroom scale. Determine the scale reading if the elevator is
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I have a Physics problem but I think it involves \r\n" );
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document.write( "a mass of 160/32 = 5 slugs. A 160 lb. person steps \r\n" );
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document.write( "It will read more than 160 lbs.   That's all you \r\n" );
document.write( "can say without knowing the rate of acceleration \r\n" );
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document.write( "b.the elevator cable breaks \r\n" );
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document.write( "It reads whatever it read at the moment the cable \r\n" );
document.write( "broke, for everything is then falling at the same \r\n" );
document.write( "rate of acceleration 32 ft/secē.\r\n" );
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document.write( "I think you've not stated everything that was \r\n" );
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