• hsdkfr734r@feddit.nlEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I don’t understand. What’s a uniform gravitational field and why does being inside one feels like standing in an accelerating elevator?

      • hsdkfr734r@feddit.nlEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        Thanks. Let’s see:

        The weak equivalence principle, also known as the universality of free fall or the Galilean equivalence principle can be stated in many ways.

        And

        “… in a uniform gravitational field all objects, regardless of their composition, fall with precisely the same acceleration.” “The weak equivalence principle implicitly assumes that the falling objects are bound by non-gravitational forces.”[11]

        I’m just beginning to understand. I’m not there yet.