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A lift is accelerated upward Will the apparent weight of a person inside the lift increase , decrease or remain the same relative to its real weight ? If the lift is going with unifrom speed then ?

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Apparent weight will increase. When lift is going up with uniform speed, apparent weight will be same as real weight
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