Re: [Phys-L] To gal or not to Gal.

[Bennett <bennett@oakland.edu>]

When I was in Pisa many years ago I decided to do a gedanken experiment.

I dropped a 1.000 Lire coin and a 1,000 Lira note at the same time.

Unfortunately, I forgot to station a grad student to make observations.


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:09 PM, brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> On 9/25/2013 12:08 PM, Chuck Britton wrote:
>
> > I have no reference for it.
> > It could in fact be just the product of my overactive imagination.
> >
> > (Or it might well have the sort of thing that Isaac Asimov would have
> > included in any of his many tomes that I absorbed as a child.)
> >
> > On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:39 PM, brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >  On 9/25/2013 8:59 AM, Chuck Britton wrote:
> > > > I believe that the two unequal but connected masses was the Gedanken
> > > > Expt. that Galileo describes in his writing.
> > > > If heavier things fall faster, then cutting the string would make them
> > > > both slow down.
> > > >
> > > >  I briefly reviewed the discussions of the Two New Sciences, but I
> > > found no description with this arrangement, so I expect that it occurred in
> > > some earlier, less digested version of the study of motion?
> > >
> > > Brian Whatcott   Altus OK
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> > >
> > >
> > >  I remember to look for sweating rivets, and you remember masses
> connected with a stiff tendon: some things are for ever - I don't discount
> it.
>
>
> Brian Whatcott    Altus OK
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