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How do you ever ascend or descend without accelerating up or down?
by LeifCarrotson 10y ago
How do you ever ascend or descend without accelerating up or down?
- falcolas 10y agoIt depends on your frame of reference. If you're on the space station, are you falling down with 1G of force? Yes, but so is everything else around you, so we consider this to be effectively weightlessness. An aircraft which is freefalling will be experiencing 0G's in that downward direction, but if the aircraft's wings are creating 1G of force perpendicular to the force of gravity, the only forces experienced within the frame of reference of the aircraft is that 1G sideways.