quizle tphysics Al is floating freely in her spacecraft, and you are accelerating away from her with an acceleration of 1g. 5) How will you feel in your spacecraft? A) You will be floating weightlessly. B) You will feel weight, but less than on Earth. C) You will feel weight, but more than on Earth. D) You will feel the same weight as you do on Earth. E) You will feel yourself pressed against the back of your spaceship with great force, making it difficult to move.

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11 September, 22:59

quizle tphysics Al is floating freely in her spacecraft, and you are accelerating away from her with an acceleration of 1g. 5) How will you feel in your spacecraft? A) You will be floating weightlessly. B) You will feel weight, but less than on Earth. C) You will feel weight, but more than on Earth. D) You will feel the same weight as you do on Earth. E) You will feel yourself pressed against the back of your spaceship with great force, making it difficult to move.

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D) You will feel the same weight as you do on Earth.

Explanation:

According to Einstein's equivalence principle, states that the weak equivalence principle holds and that: The test result of any non-gravitational experiment in a freely falling laboratory is independent of the velocity of the laboratory and its location in spacetime. This simply means gravitational force is proportional to inertial mass, and the proportionality is independent of the kind of matter.

Hence, You will feel the same weight as you do on Earth because you won't feel any change and will have no way to know that you've left Earth.