(II) You are explaining to friends why an astronaut feelsweightless orbiting in the space shuttle, and they respondthat they thought gravity was just a lot weaker up there.Convince them that it isn’t so by calculating how muchweaker (in %) gravity is 380 km above the Earth’s surface.

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Newton's First Law of Motion

If a very smooth ball is rolled down an inclined surface with zero friction, the ball will continue to roll indefinitely for an infinite time, in an attempt to reach to the same height on the opposite hill!