Falling objects are stationary so the proper acceleration is 0. They do not accelerate.
Object on tables etc actually accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 up (equivalence principle etc, they feel the mediating force where they touch the table)
If you take these naively and don’t know about geodesics etc you would think these claim that an apple on a table would lose contact with the table by levitating away. But with proper (pun intended) definitions that is not at all what they claim.
I do think these do not really fit on the category of “oversimplification”. Rather they are “oversophisticated”.
What I meant was, “All objects accelerate towards the ground at 9.8 m/s^2” is the oversimplification and the bulleted examples were the various reasons that the oversimplification is not technically correct.
I also missed that you were naming and giving examples to the unnamed concept.
The examples are more of edge cases. Having a different definition what is an inertial object makes the old statements false also in their core. Disagreeing 180 degrees on the direction of the force is not a small disagreement or one that can be glossed over by a rounding error.
I thought that the point of the unnamed concept was that it is false. The oversimplification examples seem rather have the attitude to classify the target as confused or muddled, “not even wrong”.
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Falling objects are stationary so the proper acceleration is 0. They do not accelerate.
Object on tables etc actually accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 up (equivalence principle etc, they feel the mediating force where they touch the table)
If you take these naively and don’t know about geodesics etc you would think these claim that an apple on a table would lose contact with the table by levitating away. But with proper (pun intended) definitions that is not at all what they claim.
I do think these do not really fit on the category of “oversimplification”. Rather they are “oversophisticated”.
What I meant was, “All objects accelerate towards the ground at 9.8 m/s^2” is the oversimplification and the bulleted examples were the various reasons that the oversimplification is not technically correct.
I also missed that you were naming and giving examples to the unnamed concept.
The examples are more of edge cases. Having a different definition what is an inertial object makes the old statements false also in their core. Disagreeing 180 degrees on the direction of the force is not a small disagreement or one that can be glossed over by a rounding error.
I thought that the point of the unnamed concept was that it is false. The oversimplification examples seem rather have the attitude to classify the target as confused or muddled, “not even wrong”.