Given below are two statements:Statement-I: An elevator can go up or down with uniform speed when its weight is balanced with the tension of its cable.Statement-II: Force exerted by the floor of an elevator on the foot of a person standing on it is more than his/her weight when the elevator goes down with increasing speed.In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:Both Statement I and Statement II are falseStatement I is true but Statement II is falseBoth Statement I and Statement II are trueStatement I is false but Statement II is true
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Given below are two statements:Statement-I: An elevator can go up or down with uniform speed when its weight is balanced with the tension of its cable.Statement-II: Force exerted by the floor of an elevator on the foot of a person standing on it is more than his/her weight when the elevator goes down with increasing speed.In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:Both Statement I and Statement II are falseStatement I is true but Statement II is falseBoth Statement I and Statement II are trueStatement I is false but Statement II is true
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Statement I is true but Statement II is false
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