I know some of you come from Europe and other parts of the world where the ground floor is rez-de-chauss?e or some silly thing like this 1 and you push a button on the elevator to one and you go up to the first floor.

我知道你们中间有些人来自欧洲,或者世界其他地方，你们那里的一楼,和地面齐平，或者像这样可笑的事情,比如你要按下电梯的按钮,然后才能上到真正的1楼。

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Whether you take the elevator to the top of the Hancock Tower or whether you walk up the stairs, the change in gravitational potential is identical.

不管你是乘电梯,去大厦的顶层,或者是步行，重力势能的变化是相同的。

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It means, when you are accelerating upwards, as the elevator picks up speed, the reading on the spring will be more and you will feel heavy.

也就是说当你向上做加速运动时,就像电梯加速的时候,弹簧的读数会增大,你会觉得自己变重了

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