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Re: Weightlessness

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Carlson <Raacc@AOL.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: Weightlessness


In a message dated 10/17/99 8:34:39 AM Central Daylight Time,
romanza@MBOX3.SINGNET.COM.SG writes:

Camp 1 uses the definition of weight as gravitational force. So can I
assume
that these camp 1 intellectuals believe that there is no true
weightlessness
for any object in a gravitational field?

Rom

This camp would say that this statement is tantamount to saying that there
is no absence of gravitational force on any object in a gravitational
field. In the right circumstances, however, these gravitational forces
may cancel to zero on a specific object.

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor