Alice is floating freely in her spacecraft, and you are accelerating away from her with an acceleration of 1g. Suppose you claim that you are feeling the effects of a gravitational field. How can you explain the fact that Alice is weightless?

A) She is weightless because she is moving at constant velocity.
B) She is weightless because she is in a not moving.
C) She is weightless because she is in free-fall.
D) If you are in a gravitational field, then she cannot be weightless.


C) She is weightless because she is in free-fall.

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