Explain why an astronaut standing on a bathroom scale inside a windowless spacecraft…

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Problem

Explain why an astronaut standing on a bathroom scale inside a windowless spacecraft accelerating at

9.8\,\text{m/s}^2

through deep space obtains the same reading that she would measure while standing at rest on Earth’s surface.