Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment
| dc.contributor.author | Magruder, Kerry | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-27T02:32:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-12-27T02:32:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 performed the experiment, believing with Aristotle that a cannonball dropped from the mast would fall harmlessly into the wake of the ship, why were no reports made to the contrary? This OER includes a cartoon with an answer to the question. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kerry Magruder, "Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment," Lynx Open Ed, 2015. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11244/23348 | |
| dc.language | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Learning Leaflet; | |
| dc.subject | Starting Points | en_US |
| dc.subject | History of Science | en_US |
| dc.subject | Galileo's World | en_US |
| dc.subject | physics | en_US |
| dc.title | Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment | en_US |
| dc.type | Learning Object | en_US |
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