A spring in an Elevator? What??!

Classical Mechanics Level 1

A Spring balance is attached to the ceiling of an elevator. A mass of 10 kg is suspended from it. If the mass suddenly starts falling freely,Then what reading will the spring balance show?


The answer is 0.

View wiki
Mehul Arora by Mehul Arora , 20, India

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Mehul Arora
Dec 28, 2014

Though I forgot to mention g= 10m/s, There is no need for it. The mass of a free falling body is always Zero Hence, the spring balance will show a reading of 0

Cheers:)

1 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

Challenge Student note: "The mass of a free falling body is always Zero" You must justify this statement.

Nihar Mahajan - 5 years, 7 months ago

Log in to reply

I'll do it later.

Mehul Arora - 5 years, 7 months ago

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...