Do You Feel Your Weight?

What is the difference between feeling your weight and the force of gravity acting on you?

Explain why the reading on a scale changes when a person dances.

Discuss the relationship between force normal and weight when standing still on a scale.

Describe what happens to your apparent weight when you are in an elevator that is accelerating upwards.

How does Newton's second law apply to the concept of apparent weight?

What would happen to a person’s apparent weight in a freely falling elevator?

What is apparent weightlessness and how does it relate to astronauts in the International Space Station?