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an elevator carrying a person of mass m is moving upward and slowing diwn. how dies the magnitude m of the force exerted on the person by the elevator floor compare with the magnitude mg of thr gravitational force?

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User Twalberg
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The magnitude of the tension force has to be larger than mg because Fnet always points toward the direction of the acceleration.

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