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A bird is sitting in a large closed cage which is placed on a spring balance. It records a weight of 25 N. The bird (mass m = 0.5 kg) flies upward in the cage with an acceleration of 2 m/s2. The spring balance will now record a weight of


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24 N

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25 N

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26 N

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27 N

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Solution

The correct option is B

25 N


Since the cage is closed and we can treat bird, cage and the air as a closed (isolated) system. In this condition the force applied by the bird on cage is an internal force, due to this the reading of spring balance will not change.


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