According to legend, Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, researchers ...

Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource can be found on the NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" Web site. The motion of objects fascinated Galileo throughout his life. When ...

Experiments 1 and 2 dealt with ones that Galileo could have done and with a couple of thought experiments. This section deals with an experiment similar to one we know Galileo conducted. Trying to ...

Historians are not sure if Galileo ever carried out experiments at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. So why, asks Robert P Crease, has the story become part of physics folklore? Tall tale – where the Galileo ...