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[Original Message]pointing
From: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>
On 11/21/2006 02:00 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
In my view the free body diagram on the astronaut shows one arrow
Ittoward the Earth. It is the weight of the astronaut, or mg (g = 8.7 up
there). The astronaut is in free fall, and they have plenty of weight.
is this force which makes them accelerate in orbit. But the scale reads
zero, so they have no apparent weight.
This is more clear to me, but we each have our own way of explaining
things.
Anybody out there with a different way of explaining "weightless"
astronauts?
Does anybody out there /not/ have a different way of explaining
weightlessness???