By 
Carol Hedden
 | 
TED-Ed Original

Would you weigh less in an elevator?

What happens when you jump in a moving elevator? Do you weigh more when you're going up and less when you're going down? Carol Hedden explores the relationship between gravity weight and relative motion using a moving elevator to explain the fascinating physics.

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