According to the Figure 1 and the chart above, it clearly shows that the time it takes the object to hit ground did being impacted by the surface area and mass. The greater the mass, the more time it takes the object to hit the ground. While the larger the surface area, the faster it hit the ground. Because of the air resistance, larger surface area caused the object to fell faster than the object with smaller surface area.
Although the background research proved that the mass doesn’t affect the time it takes the object to hit the ground, the factor that caused the results to be slightly different from Galileo’s experiment was the accuracy in timing. By using mobile phone to time the interval, people wasn’t able to catch the exact moment when object hit the ground.
Linking with the background research before, Galileo’s experiment declared that there was no relationship between mass and the falling time of an object. However, because the height was a constant in the experiment, the formula time2 = (2 × distance) / acceleration was choose to test the accuracy of the experiment, and results was get:
By observing the height listed, only the “128+96 Pages” and “96 Pages (SA*2)” was relatively accurate than other numbers on the chart.
Apart from experiment being proved by Galileo, this experiment had many parts needed to be improved. Not …show more content…
In 1590, Galileo had completed the experiment of freefall by using two balls with different mass, and surprisingly, two balls hit the ground at the same
Although the background research proved that the mass doesn’t affect the time it takes the object to hit the ground, the factor that caused the results to be slightly different from Galileo’s experiment was the accuracy in timing. By using mobile phone to time the interval, people wasn’t able to catch the exact moment when object hit the ground.
Linking with the background research before, Galileo’s experiment declared that there was no relationship between mass and the falling time of an object. However, because the height was a constant in the experiment, the formula time2 = (2 × distance) / acceleration was choose to test the accuracy of the experiment, and results was get:
By observing the height listed, only the “128+96 Pages” and “96 Pages (SA*2)” was relatively accurate than other numbers on the chart.
Apart from experiment being proved by Galileo, this experiment had many parts needed to be improved. Not …show more content…
In 1590, Galileo had completed the experiment of freefall by using two balls with different mass, and surprisingly, two balls hit the ground at the same