Browsing OU - Open Educational Resources (OER) by Subject "physics"

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    • Inclined Plane: Law of Falling Bodies 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Galileo described his experiment with an inclined plane in his book, Two New Sciences. In this work Galileo was operating within a research tradition in physics known as "impetus." This tradition, begun in the 6th century ...

    • Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World," includes a discussion about dropping balls from the mast of both a moving ship and a ship at rest in order to test the theory of inertia. If sailors actually had ...