{"id":20838,"date":"2024-02-19T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T12:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/?page_id=20838"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T22:03:07","slug":"vomit-comet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/vomit-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vomit comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 200\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Shown below is the trajectory taken by an aircraft that is used to simulate weightlessness by its passengers over a short range of motion of the path (the data is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gozerog.com\">Zero Gravity Corporation<\/a> website). From this figure it is seen that the passenger feels weightless over a period of about 25 s near the maximum height of the trajectory. The aircraft is traveling 230 m\/s at the maximum height (where the gravitational acceleration is known to be 9.79 m\/s2).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpa-warning wpa-image-missing-alt alignnone wp-image-20839 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-19-at-7.56.27\u202fAM-300x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"279\" data-warning=\"Missing alt text\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-19-at-7.56.27\u202fAM-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/Screenshot-2024-02-19-at-7.56.27\u202fAM.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The following is a video of a similar flight where the passengers experience &#8220;weightlessness&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/02\/vomit_comet.gif\" width=\"1033\" height=\"517\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shown below is the trajectory taken by an aircraft that is used to simulate weightlessness by its passengers over a short range of motion of the path (the data is from the Zero Gravity Corporation website). From this figure it is seen that the passenger feels weightless over a period of about 25 s near &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/vomit-comet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vomit comet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20838"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20851,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20838\/revisions\/20851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/freeform\/me274\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}