Today, we learned about Acceleration, and was introduced to the
Galileo experiment. Although I had heard about his findings, it was still hard
to understand why when we saw the demonstration. Mr. B dropped a tennis ball
and volleyball from the same position in the air. To our amazement (no matter
how many trials we conducted), the two balls, which are clearly different in
weight, hit the floor simultaneously. This reminded me of the free fall ride at
knots berry farms. Regardless of how many people in the carts, (how heavy the
cart is) the cart still falls at the same rate. This shows that gravity affects
all objects regardless of mass. Before this lesson I would have just assumed
that carts with more people and therefore more weight would drop at a faster rate
on the ride. Yet Galileo's findings continuously proves to us that even though no
one was on the ride, the cart would still drop at the same rate as a cart full
of people, because gravity affects all objects equally.
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