Complete the weightlessness explanation
Exercise and reference answers
- Missing parts
- Answer
- not
- Choices
- not
- partly
- entirely
- Answer
- free fall
- Choices
- free fall
- vacuum
- darkness
- Complete the statement
- An astronaut in orbit feels weightless. This is {0} because gravity is weak at that height. It is because the astronaut and the satellite are both in {1}.
Explanation
The chapter is explicit that weak gravity is NOT the reason. Source: syllabus Physics, Ch 7 Gravitation.
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