Gravity, Weight and Their Absence

• Main Author: Pletser, Vladimir (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Physics,
• Subjects: Mechanics.; Space sciences.; Aerospace engineering.; Astronautics.; Human physiology.; Surfaces (Physics).; Interfaces (Physical sciences).; Thin films.; Classical Mechanics.; Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics).; Aerospace Technology and Astronautics.; Human Physiology.; Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films.

The book introduces readers to the concept of weightlessness and microgravity, and presents several examples of microgravity research in fluid physics, the material sciences and human physiology. Further, it explains a range of basic physical concepts (inertia, reference frames, mass and weight, acc...