Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

This report is about the Galileo’s famous gravity experiment about the gravity. 400 years ago, he said that the velocity of heavy ball and the feather will be same when there is no air resistance between them.  

Contents

Title page. 1

About report 1

Name. 1

Class number 1

Date. 1

Abstract 2

Introduction. 2

Theory. 2

Procedure. 3

Results. 3

Discussion. 5

Conclusion. 5

Reference. 5

Abstract of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

        In this report there is discussion about the famous experiment of Galileo that is about the velocity of heavy and light object when it is thrown from the certain height. The hypothesis that Galileo has suggested is that velocity of heavy object and lighter object will be same when there is no involvement of the air resistance. This experiment will be performed through the help of bowling ball that as the heavy object and on the other hand feathers are taken for the lighter object.

Introduction of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

            In this report there will be complete justification of the hypothesis of Galileo that is about the effect of gravity when there is no air resistance. In the past the Italian scientist Galileo was involved in given the hypothesis about the air resistance. He said that there the heavy object falls faster than lighter objects. This is just because of the air resistance between them. If there is no air resistance between them then the heavy and lighter object will fall at the same time. For proving his hypothesis there is need of experimental results. In this report there are some experimental results that will help to prove this theory in proper way.

Theory of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

            In the past one of the most popular Italian scientist has proposed one of the most famous hypothesis about the gravity and air resistance of the two sphere that have two different masses. Means that one ball is heavy and the one is light. He throws these balls from the leaning tower of Pisa. It can be seen that both bowls has different masses so they depend upon the time. Then after this experiment he has proposed that the object will fall on the ground at same velocity and acceleration when there is no involvement of air (Hilliam).

Procedure of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

            For proving his hypothesis an experiment is done. The apparatus used for this experiment are bowling ball, feathers and stop watch for measuring the time. The mass of the feature and ball is not same. Then after this both of these object were thrown on the ground, and the time will be measured. Then after this the air form the room will be removed properly. The room will be completely full of vacuum. There will be not a single sign of air in the room. Then after this both of these object will throw again on the ground.

Results of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

The results from the experiment shows that

This figure is the relationship between the time and velocity of the free falling object

This figure is the relationship between the time and distance of the free falling object. This shows that there is exponential relationship between the time and distance of the free fall object. For this there is use of trend line of polynomial.

Discussion on Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

The results show that there will be effect of any mass of the body when there is no sign of air. Both object will fall on the ground at same speed.

Conclusion on Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

        Summing up all the discussion from above it is concluded that the hypothesis that was made by Galileo was completely correct. That has been proved in this experiment, the velocity of both bodies is same when there is no any sign of air between them. Both heavy and light object will fall on the ground at the same time when there is air is present.  

Reflection of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

        The present experimental work increases conceptual understanding of Galileo famous formula of velocity about the heavy and the light objects. According to experiment, it was evident that velocity of lighter and heavy objects will be same in the absence of air resistance. The velocity of falling objects also depends on the shape and size regardless of air resistance. The results show that with increasing time duration for the moving objects the velocity and the distance increase for the freely falling objects. The polynomial trend was observed for falling massive bodies. The experiment provides additional analysis that proves accuracy of Galileo hypothesis.

Reference of Galileo’s Famous Gravity Experiment

Hilliam, Rachel. Galileo Galilei: Father of Modern Science. The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 2004.