Apparent weight in an accelerating lift

A man on a weighing scale inside a lift. Accelerate up or down, free-fall or move at constant speed and read the scale: N = m(g + a). Also a pendulum and a water-filled bottle in the lift.

About this experiment

What you do in the lab

Change the controls and watch the physics behave in real time in 3D. Live readouts and graphs show the numbers behind it, and the Learn tab has the theory, procedure, observations and viva questions. Works on a phone or a laptop, in English and Hindi.

Topics: apparent weight · lift · non-inertial frame · pseudo force · free fall

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