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helokit
13th December 2005 - 05:56 AM
If you stand on a bathroom scale, the spring inside the scale compresses 0.50 mm, and it tells you your weight is 710 N. Now if you jump on the scale from a height of 1.5 m, what does the scale read at its peak?



If you jump on it, doesn't it weigh more less
Nessus
13th December 2005 - 06:27 AM
Depends on the time it takes between when your feet touch the scale and you stop moving.
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