Gravity, Weight and Their Absence by Vladimir PletserEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 98 Pages | ISBN : 9811086958 | 7.71 MB
The book introduces readers to the concept of weightlessness and microgravity, and presents several examples of microgravity research in fluid physics, the material sciences and human physiology. Further, it explains a range of basic physical concepts (inertia, reference frames, mass and weight, accelerations, gravitation and weightiness, free fall, trajectories, and platforms for microgravity research) in simple terms.