Homework Help: physics

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at 10:47pm.

Your teacher used to think he could move an entire space station floating weightless in space with a mere push of his pinkie finger. Was he correct?

physics - drwls, Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 2:06am
Space stations are not weightless. The people inside them only think they are weightless. They are already moving along with the space station.

A mass subjected to any unbalanced force, no matter how small, will accelerate.

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