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Similar popular misconception - if the earth stopped rotating - we
would all fly off into space.
At 12:41 PM -0400 11/3/10, Joseph Bellina wrote:
Regarding this particular question, I don't want to get into trying_______________________________________________
to read the minds of the original authors. However it is the case
that some students think that if there were no air pressure, the
object would float off the table. The idea seems to be that things
in space are are weightless, so if there were no air, as in space,
there would be weight.
So perhaps they were trying to see if students would pick C to
determine if they carried this misconception.
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