Question

If you experience weightlessness, then your weight is zero.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

Weightlessness can be experienced in zero-gravity or in a freefall.
The people and objects in the Space Shuttle experience weightlessness and float around because, there is no relative acceleration of one object with respect to another. This is because acceleration of an object under gravity does not depend on the mass of the object and all objects fall together in the same way or orbit the Earth in the same way irrespective of the mass. Therefore, weightlessness does not infer that the weight is zero.