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Download full textBalukovic, Jasmina; Slisko, Josip – European Journal of Physics Education, 2018
A recent textbook research, carried out on a sample of 20 American physics textbooks, shows that the authors mainly keep the old definition of weight. According to that definition, the weight of a body is the gravitational force on the body. In such a conceptual frame, the objects in the spaceship are "apparently weightless" because they…
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