What happens to your weight when you go down an elevator?

If you stand on a scale in an elevator accelerating upward, you feel heavier because the elevator’s floor presses harder on your feet, and the scale will show a higher reading than when the elevator is at rest. On the other hand, when the elevator accelerates downward, you feel lighter.

Do you weigh more going up or down in an elevator?

When standing on the top of the bathroom scale, the normal force is equal to your apparent weight. So, you actually feel a little heavier than usual when the elevator accelerates upward, and lighter than usual when the acceleration is directed downward.

Why do you feel heavier when an elevator goes down?

Instead of moving forward in a lift/elevator, we move upwards, so we feel ourselves being pushed downwards, making ourselves feel heavier. You can also think about the opposite feeling, like feeling lighter when an elevator moves downwards quickly (faster than the force of gravity).

Are you heavier in an elevator?

The normal force is equal to your apparent weight. So, you actually feel a little heavier than usual when the elevator accelerates upward, and lighter than usual when the acceleration is down. The normal force applied by the seat on you is less than mg at the top and larger than mg at the bottom.

Does your weight change on the moon?

The weight of an object is a force expressed in Newton (N). Therefore, the mass of an object on the Moon remains the same as its mass on Earth. But its weight gets less because the gravity on the moon is less than on the Earth.

Does weight change in elevator?

When the elevator is moving, we will weigh our normal weight. Since we are already moving at the same speed as the elevator (up or down), nothing is affecting us to change our weight. So for a short time, we are pushed into the floor more and our weight goes up. The same thing works when the elevator starts moving.

When a lift is accelerating upwards?

When the lift accelerates upward, a pseudo force will act on the body in the downward direction in addition to the weight. So the apparent weight will increase. If lift is going with uniform speed, the force acting on the body will be weight of the person. So the apparent weight will be same as the real weight.

Why do we feel our weight?

We “feel” our weight because we are being accelerated into the ground by the Earth’s gravitational pull. This causes the ground to also push on us with a “normal” force, according to Newton’s Third Law (every action has an equal and opposite reaction.)

Do people weigh less at high tide?

That’s because your weight is equal to the mass of your body multiplied by the local acceleration of gravity. When the tide pulls you farther from the Earth’s center of gravity, you weigh less than when the tide is elsewhere on the Earth and you are closer to the Earth’s center.