Galilio's falling bodies

... Galileo's falling bodies It is said that Galileo Galilee investigated the laws of motion by dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa. In 1604 he deducted that, without friction, all falling objects, light or heavy, would fall with the same acceleration. Galileo's ideas were not entirely accepted. Our present-day ideas about forces and motion mainly come from Isaac Newton's laws of motion, which were put forward by him some 80-odd years after Galileo's observation. Aim I am carrying out an investigation to see whether Galileo was right with his observation. Preliminary experiment For my preliminary experiment I set up the equipment and measured the distance from the floor to the ground. This was the distance the weights would fall which was 2.6m. One person then dropped a 500g weight from the ceiling and used a stopwatch to time how long it took to hit the floor. In then did this

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