all right as a phisicist ou said smaller ball fell first, you dont have to read the links just what i copy past so you dont wast your time:
http://www.channel4.com/histor ... history/e-h/galileo1.html
Galileo also found that the weight of the ball did not matter – balls of different weights all arrived at the end of the ramp in the same time.
http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/ePhysics.f/labI_2.html
While Galileo might be right, he had no technology to actually measure the acceleration of a rapidly falling object. So he reasoned that an inclined plane would dilute the fall of a ball, but not change the nature of the steady acceleration.
Galileo was able to show that if the acceleration is steady, the the distance fallen will be proportional to the square of the time of fall: d = 1/2 at2, where a is the acceleration constant.
no mass to take into account in that formula
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00210.htm
What he did do is make a ramp out of wood, and roll balls of
various weights down this ramp. The ramp allowed him extra time to measure
how long it took for the balls to reach the bottom. It took the same length
of time, no matter how heavy the balls were. This was the basis for a
well-known law of acceleration due to gravity.
and my fauvorite since it matches my experiments:
http://askville.amazon.com/Kin ... ewer.do?requestId=8795109
"Kindergarten kids tested ... istent with science"
whos gona question physics but who actually wantsto learn as kids, of course im a child in mind
http://www.channel4.com/histor ... history/e-h/galileo1.html
Galileo also found that the weight of the ball did not matter – balls of different weights all arrived at the end of the ramp in the same time.
http://homepage.mac.com/dtrapp/ePhysics.f/labI_2.html
While Galileo might be right, he had no technology to actually measure the acceleration of a rapidly falling object. So he reasoned that an inclined plane would dilute the fall of a ball, but not change the nature of the steady acceleration.
Galileo was able to show that if the acceleration is steady, the the distance fallen will be proportional to the square of the time of fall: d = 1/2 at2, where a is the acceleration constant.
no mass to take into account in that formula
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00210.htm
What he did do is make a ramp out of wood, and roll balls of
various weights down this ramp. The ramp allowed him extra time to measure
how long it took for the balls to reach the bottom. It took the same length
of time, no matter how heavy the balls were. This was the basis for a
well-known law of acceleration due to gravity.
and my fauvorite since it matches my experiments:
http://askville.amazon.com/Kin ... ewer.do?requestId=8795109
"Kindergarten kids tested ... istent with science"
whos gona question physics but who actually wantsto learn as kids, of course im a child in mind