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As part of their training before going into orbit, astronauts experience weightlessness wh...

As part of their training before going into orbit, astronauts experience weightlessness when riding in an airplane that is flown along the same parabolic trajectory as a freely falling projectile. A classmate says that the gravitational forces on everything inside the plane during this maneuver cancel to zero. Another classmate looks to you for confirmation. What is your response?

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