Galileo and the Leaning Tower As a lecturer at the University of Pisa in 1589, Galileo Viviana gave a demonstration of his theory of acceleration atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa before his colleagues, students, and philosophers. ... Galileo then revealed that both balls were made of the same material but of different weights. ... Galileo had studied this concept intensively before the incident. ... Hard as he tried, Galileo could not get objects of different materials to fall alike. ... Galileo's first approach to testing this theory was to observe how specific weight effects the ...

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This law is considered to be a extension of Galileo's Law of Inertia. ... As we have noted earlier in conjunction with the discussion of Galileo, Aristotle's view seems to be more in accord with common sense, but that is because of a failure to appreciate the role played by frictional forces. Once account is taken of all forces acting in a given situation it is the dynamics of Galileo and Newton, not of Aristotle, that are found to be in accord with the observations. ...

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Without motion, life would cease to exist. You can look all around you and find something that has motion. For example, staring out of your window and the leaves on a tree are blowing back and forth. This is due to the effect of the wind. When we throw a baseball or drop a glass of milk and crashes...

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Newton's First Law of Motion - The Law of Inertia This law, already noted by Galileo, states the following: "An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object at rest tends to stay at rest, unless the object is acted upon by an outside force."" ...

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INVESTIGATION OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE TIME PERIOD OF A SIMPLE PENDULUM I will begin with an explanation of motions and Galileo's discovery of motion under gravity: Galileo's insight was that all bodies fall equally fast in a gravitational field. ... It is said that Galileo used to swing of a candle chandelier to explain the motion of a pendulum in the early 1600's. ...

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