According to the Principle of Equivalence, Observations Made of Falling

question 23

Multiple Choice

According to the principle of equivalence, observations made of falling objects at Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa are indistinguishable from observations made in

• A)a spaceship orbiting in a gravitational field.
• B)a spaceship accelerating at g in deep space.
• C)any uniformly moving reference frame.
• D)all of the above
• E)none of the above

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