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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:42:30 -0800
From: Leigh Palmer <palmer@sfu.ca>
Subject: Re: Apparent weight
> Students go to the elevator and observe what happens; it is a
> part of a lab in Concepts of Science. What is wrong with this?
I've no problem with apparent weight being the reading on a scale.
I ask: How is apparent weight related to gravitational field? Is
gravitational field just the ratio of apparent weight to inertial
mass? That is the usual operational definition. The apparent weight
of a mass in an orbiting shuttle is mighty small, I'll wager. That
means the gravitational field in the shuttle is mighty small, too.