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F=ma in a Lift
This activity is produced by the Maths Magic project. F=ma in a Lift provides examples and ideas for A-level mathematics and physics students investigating what happens when they are being weighed in a lift and to have a discussion about mass and weight and the difference between the two quantities. Ideally students will have access to a lift but the teaching notes explain how the motion of a lift can be simulated in the classroom. The activity looks at what happens to the reading on the scales as the lift accelerates upwards, decelerates whilst going upwards, accelerate downwards, decelerates whilst travelling downwards and travelling at constant speed.
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