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badboyben03
Dec8-03, 06:26 PM
how can i find the answer w/o knowing the mass?

A student stands on a bathroom scale in an elevator at rest on the 64th floor of a building. The scale reads 818 N. As the elevator moves up, the scale reading increases to 950 N, then decreases back to 818 N. Find the acceleration of the elevator.

chroot
Dec8-03, 06:32 PM
Newton's second law of motion.

- Warren

badboyben03
Dec8-03, 07:34 PM
i dunno how 2 use it to solve the problem.