If you are standing on a weighing scale attached to the floor of an elevator of a building and you see that the scale reading is zero, then the elevator is a. accelerating upward. b. freely falling. c. moving at constant velocity. d. not moving.

If you are standing on a weighing scale attached to the floor of an elevator of a building and you see that the scale reading is zero, then the elevator is a. accelerating upward. b. freely falling. c. moving at constant velocity. d. not moving.

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If you are standing on a weighing scale attached to the floor of an elevator of a building and you see that the scale reading is zero, then the elevator is

a. accelerating upward.

b. freely falling.

c. moving at constant velocity.

d. not moving.

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