NAME: DONATO ALAWIN BACDAY JR.

SECTION: BSRT-1A

Title: Early Ideas about Motion

INTRODUCTION:
Do forces always result in motion? Does a body need a continuous push or pull
to achieve a uniform motion? Or does a body need not have a constant push or pull to
remain moving?
Let us expose ourselves to the ideas of the two of the most famous names in the
field of science and logic - Galileo and Aristotle.

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INSTRUCTION: Present the conflicting ideas of Galileo and Aristotle about motion.

Galileo Aristotle

- While Galileo felt that the mass of - According to Aristotle says that the
an object made no difference to the heavier things are, the quicker they
speed at which it fell. will fall.

1. Who do you think gave the most plausible explanation? Why?

- For me, I think Aristotle gave the most plausible explanation. I agree more with
Aristotle than Galileo because if we try to drop things with the same weight but
different shape, it will prove that things will fall faster depending on its weight,
as well as dropping the same shape with different weight. This is clearly because
of the force and gravity presented by Aristotle.
 2. Whose ideas are applicable today?

- For me, it would be Aristotle.

3. Write an essay about the contradicting ideas of Galileo and Aristotle.

- Thus, Aristotle believed that the laws governing the motion of the heavens were
a different set of laws than those that governed motion on the earth. As we have
seen, Galileo’s concept of inertia was quite contrary to Aristotle’s ideas of
motion: in Galileo’s dynamics the arrow (with very small frictional forces)
continued to fly through the air because of the law of inertia, while a block of
wood on a table stopped sliding once the applied force was removed because of
frictional forces that Aristotle had failed to analyse correctly.

References: www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/ast104/aristotle_dynamics13.html