Galileo Galilei: The Leaning Tower Of Pisa

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Galileo Galilei was an italian scientist. He performed a famous experiment that proved mass has no effect on the acceleration of a free falling object. His results disproved a famous theory by Aristotle and is still a major point of discussion and experimentation today. Aristotle thought that when you drop two things with different masses that the heavier one would hit the ground first, his theory of gravity states that objects fall at speed relative to their mass. . Galileo found that the mass of an object does not affect how quickly it accelerates due to gravity. In 1589, Galileo had dropped two balls of different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass. Galileo

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