Question

explain galileo's inclined plane experiment ?

Answer 1

Galileo Galilei is considered to be one of the fathers of modern science due to his extensive research in astronomy and physics. One of his greatest contributions involved accurately measuring the effect of gravity on free falling bodies. Galileo hypothesized that a falling object would gain equal amounts of velocity in equal amounts of time, which meant that its speed increased at a constant rate as it fell. There was one problem, however, in testing this hypothesis: Galileo could not observe the object's free falling motion and at the time, technology was unable to record such high speeds. As a result, Galileo tried to decelerate its motion by replacing the falling object with a ball rolling down an inclined plane. Since free falling is essentially equivalent to a completely vertical ramp, he assumed that a ball rolling down a ramp would speed up in the exact same way as a falling ball would.