Experiments 1 and 2 dealt with ones that Galileo could have done and with ... down a plane accelerates at the same rate as one in free fall. So now all he had to do was figure out how fast a ...

that all objects fall at the same rate. It's the kind of story that's easy to imagine, easy to remember, but whether he ever performed the experiment at the tower is debatable. Still, Galileo did ...

Neglecting air resistance, they both fall the same way and reach ... That's the premise behind Galileo Galilei's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, a classic thought experiment in the field of ...