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To: dr_lew
Nope.

I promise she was experiencing 1 g of acceleration.

34 posted on 06/26/2009 9:28:25 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: krb

The problem is “experiencing”. Her motion could be described by a 1g acceleration in the ground frame of reference, but objects in Low Earth Orbit can be described likewise, as they are also objects in “free fall” near the earth’s surface.

In an LEO environment, one is said to be “experiencing” zero g, and this is physically exactly the same experience as free fall in a “Very Low Earth Orbit”.


35 posted on 06/26/2009 9:47:54 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: krb
I promise she was experiencing 1 g of acceleration.

At some instant she was, from the earth's frame of reference -- but as soon as her body's velocity toward earth increased, the drag from the viscous air molecules increased. At terminal velocity (probably never reached) the acceleration would have been zero g's.

39 posted on 06/26/2009 10:16:11 PM PDT by zipper
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