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A man of 60kg mass is in a lift. Find th...

A man of 60kg mass is in a lift. Find the apparent weight of the man when the lift is moving (a) up with uniform acceleration `4ms^(-2)` (b) down with uniform acceleration of `2ms^(-2)` (`g=10ms^(-2))`

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`840 N , 480 N`
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