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Re: free fall data



At 08:32 9/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
Why not do what Galileo did? Slow the motion down by using an air-track
tilted at a measured angle.
We do this and use photogate timing, but it should be easy to set this up
for videotaping by increasing the size of the ruled scale along the track.

Rick

This sounds like an excellent idea - no varying angular momentum factors
as the height of the inclined plane is varied either!

Sincerely

brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK