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Chapter 6, Problem 7P
(II) You are explaining to friends why astronauts feel weightless orbiting in the space shuttle, and they respond that they thought gravity was just a lot weaker up there. Convince them and yourself that it isn’t so by calculating how much weaker gravity is 300 km above the Earth's surface.
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