NAME: Teddy Art A.

Orcio STRAND: Humanities and Social Sciences

SUBJECT: Physical Science TEACHER: Mx. Carlo Jose Dionisio

Research about Gravity

Gravitation is one of the most renowned experiments in the history of science,

although there is much question regarding whether it truly occurred. Did Galileo, in 1589,

drop items of varying masses from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate the theories

outlined in his unpublished text motion? Galileo, tradition has it, dropped weights from

the Leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate that gravity causes things of various masses to

fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, scientists have taken to duplicating this

test in ways that the Italian scientist could never have imagined – by dumping atoms.

A new study provides the most delicate atom-drop test to date, demonstrating that

Galileo's gravity experiment is still valid – even for individual atoms. Physicists claim in

a work in print in Physical Review Letters that two distinct kinds of atoms had the same

acceleration within a part per trillion. However, in reality, because to the effects of air

resistance, Galileo would not have been able to properly illustrate his hypothesis. When

we remove the atmosphere, we can easily validate Galileo's prediction that any two things,

regardless of weight, shape, or material of composition, would fall at the same rate when

dropped.

Indeed, the science may be common knowledge, but seeing it in action is indeed

pretty mind blowing. A lot of things here in our environment may sometimes made us

curious but let us not forget that every being in this world has its own background

information, therefore let’s us take a time to examine those things that made us curious.

It is because based on a saying “curiosity is the key to problem solving”, it is the door for

us to enter a new world of knowledge.