How come in free fall you feel weightless even though gravity is pulling down on you?

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Feeling of Weight.

When walking, you feel the weight on your feet, therefore, your brain automatically refers to it as a source of weight.

In the air there is no platform to land on, therefore the brain does not have the conscience to register you getting pulled down.

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Here Strain due to testing is greater than the strain due to yielding that is why computation of load is not possible.

Explanation:

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Yield strength ,Sy= 240 MPa

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Case 1 :

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Case 2 :

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