Question

You are travelling in a spacecraft without windows. You are also far from any planets or
stars. Describe an experiment that you could perform to determine whether you are in an
inertial frame or a non-inertial frame of reference

Answer 1

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Answer 2

if u r in any inertial frame of referance then the laws of physics will b same

Answer 3

u know newtons second law of motion is
\[F=ma\]

Answer 4

and u will get this formula is correct in any inertial frame of referance

Answer 5

if u r in any inertial frame of referance then u r applying
F=1N
m=1kg
then u will measure the acceleration a=1m/s2

Answer 6

This is asking about the idea behind General Relativity. If you were in a inertial reference frame you could release an object, say a ball, and it would stay where it was. That is because you are not accelerating and are not in a gravity field.

If you were in a non-inertial reference frame the ball would appear to accelerate as if you released it on earth and gravity pulled it down. That was the whole idea behind general relativity, that you can't tell the difference between acceleration due to gravity and that due to being in a non-inertial reference frame.

The experiment would be to release a ball in the spaceship and measure its acceleration. If it has 0 acceleration then you are in an inertial reference frame. If the acceleration is non-zero then you are in a non-inertial reference frame.

Answer 7

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