# Physics setup? On up escalator, holding on, pivot, push, accel., pivot right on landing

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Howdy,

I think the subject is sort of clear. All that took place, say, as the last two escalator steps disappeared at the top landing.

I thought that that would be a standard undergraduate analysis problem in physics: dynamics, right?

I’ll have more questions I’m sure once somebody comes along … 🙂

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