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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The physics Newton built was based on three main ideas: Newton's first law (Galileo's principle of inertia) stating that an object at rest tends to remain at rest unless acted on by an external force; Galilean transformation of inertial frames: (Krane 18), and the law of conservation of momentum (Halliday 237). ...

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