2a.What number progression did Galileo discover with inclined planes? 2b. What did he call it? 3a. Distinguish between Galileo's major scientific contributions as a young man vs. when he was aged. 3b.

Galileo also measured the time it took for pendulums of different weights to swing back and forth and the acceleration of balls rolling down inclined planes of different lengths.

First, Galileo had to reduce the effect of gravity. To do this, he used an inclined plane. Next he made the logical assumption that a ball rolling down a plane accelerates at the same rate as one ...

Galileo's Inclined Plane. How did Galileo figure out the mathematics of falling bodies and motion? Galileo: Sun-Centered System. In the early 1600s, most people believed that the Sun revolved ...

Falling objects, inclined planes, and more. Dava Sobel is the author of Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love (Walker, 1999), from which Ms. Sobel kindly adapted this ...

According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1,000 years up until Galileo's time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that ...