If you are in an elevator going up and your holding a fish bowl, would the fish weigh less or more?

Answer 1

You would feel heavier, if the elevator accelerates up, but the fish would not sink to the bottom of the bowl. The fish is perfectly balanced in the water(it has the same density as the water) so if the fish gets heavier, the water will get heavier by the same amount and the fish will still be balanced.

Answer 2

Assuming there is a fish in said fish bowl... The fish would feel heavier when the elevator starts moving upward - i.e. accelerates away from gravity, and would not feel any different when the elevator is moving up (or down) at a constant speed. The fish and bowl will feel lighter when the elevator decelerates after the acent.

Answer 3

If the elevator is moving at a constant velocity, then weight would not change significantly unless the elevator ultimately was able to go a few miles up. But weight generally increases as acceleration increases, and decreases as you decelerate but only up to the point where you are in complete freefall - then you and everything you hold becomes weightless.

Answer 4

Actually, the fish would weigh more as the elevator accelarated upward, would weigh the same as you held a constant velocity, and then weigh less as you decelerated upon reaching your floor.

This is assuming you define weight as the force you feel pulling downward on a mass. the equation looks like this:

Force = Mass x Acceleration.

weight would be force, mass would be the fish's mass, and acceleration would be the sum of the acceleration of earth's gravity (32 feet/second^2) and the acceleration or deceleration of the elevator.

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Answer 5

to the fish's point of veiw, it would feel heavyer, due to gravational pull, moving up also cuases a slight increase in G -forces thus you will also feel like your weighing more, this is the feeling like u cant jump up in the elevator, same is true moving down, u feel you can jump higher, and with such ease, i suggest you look at newtons laws on gravity though the amout the fish will feel like it weighs is very small, but then again u didnt say the size of the fish, u said fish bowl, well orca the killer whale is in his own fish bowl* and still weighs 5 tons!

Answer 6

The fish would still weigh the same, the elevator doesn't change weight.

Answer 7

They would weigh the same. All motion is relative. Thus, while the gravitational force might be increased on the elevator, the force as measured in the elevator would be proportional. Hence, no change.
(Jump up before hitting the ground in a crashing elevator. You're still dead. The elevator crashes. Your're in it, you crash. Movement up in the elevator won't save you.)

Answer 8

You were only holding the bowl. Why would the weight of any fish change?

Answer 9

I presume there's water in the fish bowl...In that case, gravity would grab the water in which the fish was swimming, and the fish, being in its usual medium, wouldn't notice a thing..other than the water sloshing around a bit upon take-off!

Answer 10

jeez, why do people answer without knowing?...

You know that when you are in accelerated motion upwards, the "apparent" weight is higher right? I suppose you do. Well, let me tell you something... fish are not exempt from the laws of physics! Of course they will seem to weigh more (in the exact same proportion as you will).