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  2. Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment - Wikipedia

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    Galileo's thought experiment concerned the outcome (c) of attaching a small stone (a) to a larger one (b) Galileo set out his ideas about falling bodies, and about projectiles in general, in his book Two New Sciences (1638). The two sciences were the science of motion, which became the foundation-stone of physics, and the science of materials ...

  3. Jacques Alexandre Le Tenneur - Wikipedia

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    Le Tenneur was one of the few French scholars to understand Galileo and was involved in the debates around the controversy of falling bodies. [2] Galileo's thought experiment concerned the outcome (c) of attaching a small stone (a) to a larger one (b) Until Galileo, it was thought that the speed of a falling body was proportional to its weight.

  4. Two New Sciences - Wikipedia

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    Later research, however, has validated the experiments. The experiments on falling bodies (actually rolling balls) were replicated using the methods described by Galileo, [21] and the precision of the results was consistent with Galileo's report. Later research into Galileo's unpublished working papers from 1604 clearly showed the reality of ...

  5. File:Thought-experiment-free-falling-bodies.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: The diagramm depicts Galileo's thought experiment on free falling bodies. Suppose you have two objects, one heavier (b) than the other (a). Suppose the heavier object falls faster.

  6. History of experiments - Wikipedia

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    Measured fall time of a small steel sphere falling from various heights. The data is in good agreement with the predicted fall time of /, where h is the height and g is the acceleration of gravity. Galileo Galilei as a scientist performed quantitative experiments addressing many topics. Using several different methods, Galileo was able to ...

  7. Galileo's ship - Wikipedia

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    Galileo's ship refers to two physics experiments, a thought experiment and an actual experiment, by Galileo Galilei, the 16th- and 17th-century physicist and astronomer. The experiments were created to argue the idea of a rotating Earth as opposed to a stationary Earth around which rotated the Sun , planets, and stars.

  8. Nordtvedt effect - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... that some theories of gravity suggest that massive bodies should fall at different ... Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment;

  9. Frictionless plane - Wikipedia

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    The frictionless plane is a concept from the writings of Galileo Galilei. In his 1638 The Two New Sciences, [1] Galileo presented a formula that predicted the motion of an object moving down an inclined plane. His formula was based upon his past experimentation with free-falling bodies. [2]