Keys points to address in Galileo's analysis of the projectile motion? (1 Viewer)

[Octagon]

Did Galileo do any experiments in his analysis?

Are these some of the key points?
-Independent horizontal and vertical components which adds up to the overall motion
-trajectory is parabolic

Thanks guy!

 

[Roy216]

From my knowledge I believe he did an experiment to test whether all objects regardless of size fell at the same rate.

And yeah those points are right, but remember that the horiztonal component is constant and the vertical component is vulnerable to acceleration due to gravity

 

[umm what]

he did experiment where he dropped a ball from the top of a moving ship mast.....it path followed by ball was parabolic

he stated vertical and hor motion are indp of each other....the motion of an object can be analysed by using the hor and vert components.....

he also rolled down balls on highly polished ramps .... n shit lol

 

[Octagon]

With the ship mast experiment, wouldnt it demonstrate relativity more than projectile motion as dropping a ball isnt too much of a projectile motion is it, even with people on shore seeing the ball following a parabolic path, would you have to say that he assumed that projectile motion has a constant horizontal motion and a changing vertical motion? although the experiment doesnt prove the projectile motion is consisted of those components, it just proved something with constant Vx and a changing Vy follow a parabolic path.
What's the ball rolling thing, inclined plane experiment or something like that?