Free Fall Asynchronous Class

Answer sheet

Name ___________________ Section _____

Galileo´s Experiment

Question 1: What was Galileo´s fundamental finding about the solid ball falling
from a short distance vrs falling from a long distance in the first 30 seconds of
the video?

Question 2: What object did Galileo set up in his experiment to try to measure the
rate at which objects fall?

Question 3: How did Galileo measure the time that it took the ball to go down at
different lengths, at a moment in history when there were no timers or accurate
methods to measure it?

Question 4: When the investigators set up bells along the different lengths of the
ramp and released the ball from the top of the ramp, what did they notice about
the timing of the bells ringing?
Free Fall: An Explanation

1. List 4 characteristics or facts about Free fall scenarios: (use bullets)

2. In the sample problem, what variable are we solving for? 

3. What is the ignored variable?

4. What equation was chosen as the correct one to solve the problem?

Ticket out: get into the link inserted in the last slide.

(mark one)

Done/ not done