Description: The length of a pendulum is shortened in mid swing by the string hitting a peg placed below the support. The bob swings to the height from which it was released. from Galileo Galilei ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

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