30. Opal is in a windowless, soundproof box so she cannot observe her surroundings beyond the walls of the box, and she is floating, apparently weightlessly, in the box, as shown. What can she conclude? A. She is not in a gravitational field. B. She cannot determine whether or not she is in a gravitational field. C. She is in free fall in a gravitational field. D. She is traveling with constant velocity in a gravitational field.
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