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Who done it?!

  • 12-11-2008 12:03AM
    #1
    mcerc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48 ✭


    Hey,

    I wondered if anyone knew who created an experiment where two objects, different weights, are dopped from the same height to prove they fall at the same speed. For example dropping an orange and a bowling ball from the top of a ladder. Sorry im certainly no scientist, hope the above is clear.
    Our main suggestions were Newton and Gallielo?


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  • #2
    Pgibson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 406 ✭✭Pgibson


    mcerc wrote: »
    Hey,

    I wondered if anyone knew who created an experiment where two objects, different weights, are dopped from the same height to prove they fall at the same speed. For example dropping an orange and a bowling ball from the top of a ladder. Sorry im certainly no scientist, hope the above is clear.
    Our main suggestions were Newton and Gallielo?

    It's supposed to to be Galileo.

    See:

    http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/16806

    But there were others.

    Quote :
    "As far back as the sixth century, other scholars who doubted Aristotle's account of motion had also experimented with falling bodies and concluded that Aristotle was wrong."

    .


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