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Accelerating elevator?
If your in an elevator accelerating downwards faster than gravity, would you be pushed up to the ceiling? Since gravity cannot match the acceleration of the elevator, you're wouldn't be able to move ...
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Why doesn't the Gravitational Force causes body to fall towards orbital center moving with constant tangential speed? [duplicate]
Suppose a satellite is orbiting the Earth. The gravitational and centripetal force supposedly point towards the Earth. Therefore, the net force is towards the Earth. Since the satellite doesn't fall ...
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Why can't we feel the Earth turning?
The Earth turns with a very high velocity, around its own axis and around the Sun.
So why can't we feel that it's turning, but we can still feel earthquake.
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