Why you don't feel your weight while standing on a falling elevator?
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it is all about the force of gravity my friend. when you are going up in a elevator you feel positive G's but when you go down you start to experience negative G's which means that gravity has less of an effect on you thus creating the feeling you get of weightlessness when an elevator goes down
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Apparent Weight: Person on Scale in Elevator ... (When they are both falling together, ... discussed in Case 3 and Case 5. Just as in Cases 3 and 5, the apparent weight (which is zero when a=-g) is less than the true weight. A pictorial summary of apparent weight:
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