Corrected entry: When General Grevious's ship begins to de-orbit and crash, it turns its bow towards the planet's surface. The next shot of the characters inside the ship has them all tumbling towards the bow. This is wrong. Since they are accelerating towards the planet, the force they feel should pull them to the stern of the ship (much like accelerating in a car, the force pushes you back into your seat, opposite the direction of your acceleration). They should have been "falling uphill" in that shot.
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Correction: While this may be true for a car accelerating on the ground, it does not apply in this case. The ship is "falling out" of the sky. It is accelerating under the force of gravity. Laws of physics state that all objects fall at the same rate under gravitation (g) force regardless of weight and size. However, as the ship is being slowed down by atmospheric friction but the people inside are not, their strugle to move "upwards" is true.
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