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Fredo’s spaceship takes him to the very edge of known space. There, gravity has no effect at all. Fredo takes a baseball and tosses it into space. What will most likely happen to the ball?
It will not move at all.
It will return to Fredo’s spaceship.
It will eventually stop moving.
It will continue moving in a straight line.
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It will continue moving in a straight line.
With no net force (no gravity, no air resistance), Newton’s first law applies: the ball keeps its velocity, so it travels in a straight line at constant speed (until some force — collision, stray gravity, radiation pressure, etc. — acts).
With no net force (no gravity, no air resistance), Newton’s first law applies: the ball keeps its velocity, so it travels in a straight line at constant speed (until some force — collision, stray gravity, radiation pressure, etc. — acts).
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