If you drop a light object and a heavy object from a tower, which one reaches the ground first? As you may recall from high school physics, this is a trick question. Neglecting air resistance, they ...

Q: Why, when I drop two bobsleds of unequal weights off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, do they hit the ground at the same time, but when I put them both at the top of a bobsled track, the heavier one gets ...

The legend of Galileo's 'leaning tower' experiment holds lessons for how we tell the histories of science, says Phil Ball. Philip Ball It was one of the most beautiful experiments of all time.

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 ...

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 ...

One of the first scientific tests of gravity was Galileo Galilei's experiment, in which he allegedly dropped balls of different masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The idea that inertial and ...

If you drop a basketball and a medium-sized pumpkin from the roof of McConnell Hall, which will hit the ground first? That, in simplified form, is similar to a question that 400 years ago spurred one ...