Elevator Questions: Describe 2 Forces

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Homework Statement



You are standing on the floor of an elevator that starts, at rest, at the first floor of a building and then moves at constant speed to the tenth floor where it stops. Then you reverse the motion, ending where you started at the first floor.

Describe the two important forces that act on you during this motion.

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The Attempt at a Solution



One of the Forces would be gravity right? What is the other one?
 
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Jordash said:
One of the Forces would be gravity right? What is the other one?

Would the elevator ever slow up or speed up? Would you feel it? If so what might that force be?
 
LowlyPion said:
Would the elevator ever slow up or speed up? Would you feel it? If so what might that force be?

Fictitious:)
 
Jordash said:
One of the Forces would be gravity right? What is the other one?

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