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A man with a mass of 80KG stands on a bathroom scale on the floor of a lift. Determine the reading of the scale if the lift moves downwards with a constant velocity at 2metre per second.

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constant velocity means NO ACCELERATION

therefore just the weight

80 * 9.81 = 785 Newtons

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