1. Subscribersonhouse
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    14 Jun '05 14:39
    Originally posted by AThousandYoung
    Are you sure they got it wrong? You worded the question very ambiguously.
    you mean with the "what happens to the balloon" part?
    I didn't want to give away the answer inherent in the question,
    and when people are present and not having to depend on the
    written word, I would draw a picture to hopefully eliminate ambiguity.
    Since you know the question, the physics and the answer, give
    me an example of unambiguously posing the situation without
    giving a direct hint. I'm all ear.
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    14 Jun '05 18:281 edit
    Originally posted by sonhouse
    you mean with the "what happens to the balloon" part?
    I didn't want to give away the answer inherent in the question,
    and when people are present and not having to depend on the
    written word, I would draw a picture to hopefully elim ...[text shortened]... posing the situation without
    giving a direct hint. I'm all ear.
    Maybe it's not so bad after all. I guess it's the responses that are worded ambiguously. They shouldn't describe the motion of the balloon relative to "the force" (is it the Dark Side or the Light Side?!) but rather relative to the acceleration of the rocket ship. Or at least they should be stated more clearly in some way.
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    15 Jun '05 13:09
    Originally posted by AThousandYoung
    Maybe it's not so bad after all. I guess it's the responses that are worded ambiguously. They shouldn't describe the motion of the balloon relative to "the force" (is it the Dark Side or the Light Side?!) but rather relative to the acceleration of the rocket ship. Or at least they should be stated more clearly in some way.
    Thats what I thought, Mephisto's explanation confused me.
    I took "Toward the force" as going down towards the rocket
    but I think he meant just the opposite.
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    15 Jun '05 13:37
    Originally posted by sonhouse
    Thats what I thought, Mephisto's explanation confused me.
    I took "Toward the force" as going down towards the rocket
    but I think he meant just the opposite.
    I said 'the direction of the G-force'. I looked at the force as a vector. Didn't expect any confusion from that. I didn't say 'toward the force', that would have been confusing.
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    15 Jun '05 15:37
    Originally posted by Mephisto2
    I said 'the direction of the G-force'. I looked at the force as a vector. Didn't expect any confusion from that. I didn't say 'toward the force', that would have been confusing.
    It would have been clearer to me if you had said 'towards the direction
    of movement" or something. You used the vector concept without
    clarification. Just a matter of symantics. No big deal.
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