Galileo’s law of falling bodies ??

[< Ali >]

hi everybody,


I want to know about the mathmatics of deriving this laws. or in another word I want to know how did he find it..

Ali

[da_willem]

Maybe these help:

http://employees.csbsju.edu/cgearhart/Courses/Honors210/Labs/GALPLANE.pdf
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~physics/labs/p1/lab1.pdf
http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/gradconf/2003gradconf/Selected_papers(PROGRAM2)/thought_expirements.pdf

You could try to fing Galileos original paper called "falling bodies". I found it fascinating to read, especially knowing it was written hundreds of years ago.

[< Ali >]

thanks alot da willem

but where can I find this paper "falling bodies" ?

[da_willem]

Maybe you can find it in a (university-)library. I read it in abook called 'The world of physics' a collection of papers from famous physicists.