Tears of joy were streaming down my face as I entered room number 266. I gazed with wonder upon my instructor, her presence seemed to fill the room to a point of suffocation. After diligently checking the board the majority of the class produced their Spring Problems worksheet, and then compared it to the key. The trickiest problems by far were number 5 and 6, which involved the spring actually being released. Next, we watched as our lovely teacher demostrated microgravity through the following: A wonderous picture on the board of a no-doubt scale model of the earth depicting what would happen if someone threw a baseball at 8000 m/s, next we watched a video correcting the false assumption that bodies float in space because of a lack of gravity, after this Coatshaan demostrated why objects were weightless in free fall by dropping a cup with 2 holes in it that was filled with water, and then finally we played with toys. I thought the most interesting thing we learned today was that microgravity is really just the fact that an object is accelerating at the same rate as gravity therefore giving the illusion of a lack of gravity.
QOD- What is microgravity? Where can we experience it? Why do we experience it there?
Microgravity is the illusion of a lack of gravity, we can experience it while in free fall or when in orbit. We experience it there because we are accelerating at the same rate as gravity.
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