Free fall is when the only forces acting upon an object is gravity. (There is no air resistance.) Weightlessness is when there is no gravity acting upon an object. (Weight is a measurement gravity.)
In skydiving freefall, you DO NOT feel weightless. When you leave the airplane, it is traveling at about 100 mph, so you are decelerating, in ten seconds you are at terminal velocity, about 120 mph. So you never experience an acceleration that would allow you to feel "that stomach thing". The big exceptions to this are jumping off something that is not moving (much) such as a balloon, antenna tower, cliff, bridge, or building. There you get several seconds of "weightless" feeling.
The Earth's gravity diminishes but acts over an infinite distance . There is nothing about being in "space" that brings about weightlessness.
The "weightlessness" that is talked about during an orbit means merely that the centripetal force imparted by the curved orbit cancels the effect of the Earth's gravity. Orbits are deliberately established this way so that minimum fuel is burned for the spacecraft to maintain position. At an altitude of 200 km (that's twice the distance above the Earth of where it is said space begins) the effect of gravity is only 6% less than on the surface of the Earth. Speed, altitude, and gravity must be precisely matched in order to maintain the equilibrium.
When there is no gravity.
Weight is the affect of gravity on a object. Objects in orbit or objects that are falling still have weight. In fact, and object in orbit around the Earth is in essence falling the entire time, but it never hits the ground because while it falls, the Earth is curving away beneath it.
There is no spot in space with no gravity, but there are spots where the gravitational forces cancel each other out. This is where an object can be weightless. (For example, if you were between the moon and the Earth, and both were pulling on you with the same gravitational force.)
Free fall occurs when a body is accelerating and moving in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the ground with no outside force acting on it other then the Gravitational pull. The acceleration here is a constant and that is, 9.8 ms-2
centripetal force
i think outte space
no. If they were weightless they would not fall.
Yes, it would.
not on earth but it can be simulated underwater, in aircraft, you can be weightless in outer space
nothing, or rotate until it hit stop.
Something can only be weightless in zero gravity.
no. If they were weightless they would not fall.
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Helium is a gas that is weightless, odourless, and would make a barrel lighter.
They actually are weightless, due to the fact there is no gravity in space. However a sky-diver would say he/she feels weightless, but they are experiencing free-fall.
Yes, it would.
No. It is light -- not heavy, but it is not weightless.
Yes. In fact they would feel weightless.
not on earth but it can be simulated underwater, in aircraft, you can be weightless in outer space
Something is weightless when there are no gravitational forces acting upon it.
Well, according to Tony Abbott, carbon dioxide is a colourless, odourless and weightless gas. Anyone who paid attention in Science would know otherwise.
Theoretically it would be weightless at the centre point of the earth.
nothing, or rotate until it hit stop.