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Re: That jerk again!



Suppose you are standing with your shoes glued to the floor of
an elevator. It is rising in free fall with a perfectly smooth
ratchet to hold it at the top of its free fall.

Will you not rerceive a sudden change in your apparent weight?

I believe this question is quite equivalent to the car stop.

It is almost equivalent, but the change in the gravitational
field is from zero to one gee, a considerable difference! You
have got the right idea about what I'm asking, though.

When I asked the question I assumed that many of you had tried
the same thing at one time or another. I now realize that some
among you have never driven a car with a standard transmission.
That may be my communication problem here.

Leigh