Re: That jerk again!

[Jim Riley <jriley@lib.drury.edu>]

At 09:48 AM 11/19/97 -0600, you wrote:
> Suppose you are standing with your shoes glued to the floor of
> an elevator.    It is rising in free fall with a perfectly smooth
> ratchet to hold it at the top of its free fall.
>
> Will you not rerceive a sudden change in your apparent weight?

You would

> I believe this question is quite equivalent to the car stop.
It is.  In this case the compression of the body parts corresponds to the
stressing of the auto suspension.

> Clarence Bennett
> Oakland University
> Rochester, Michigan
> 248 370 3418
> http://www3.acs.oakland.edu/physics/staff_info/Bennett.htm
Jim Riley
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