EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -For thousands of years, people erroneously thought that heavier objects fell faster than lighter ones. It was not until Galileo studied the motion of falling objects that it became clear that, in the absence of air resistance, gravity causes all objects to fall at the same rate.

Detailed explanation-2: -Perhaps the most famous experiment in physics is Galileo’s effort to demonstrate that the rate of falling of a body is independent of its mass by dropping objects from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a famous demonstration, Galileo supposedly dropped a heavy weight and a light weight from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to show that both weights fall at the same acceleration. However, this rule is true only if there is no air resistance.

Detailed explanation-4: -Galileo observed that a heavy object and a light object will fall to the ground simultaneously from a particular height. All bodies of any mass will fall down simultaneously at the same time from a particular height. That is the acceleration of all free-falling bodies are same.

Detailed explanation-5: -Galileo argued that in a vacuum all bodies fall at the same rate relative to the earth, independent of their mass. Aristotle seemed to consider all media to be viscous, and argued that heavier bodies fall faster.