Providing the object does not build up too much speed and ... The equation can be used with similar apparatus capable of measuring the time to fall over a height \(s\). If the initial velocity ...
And I guess one of the reasons that we got here today was because of the gentleman named, Galileo a long time ago, and made a rather significant discovery about falling objects and gravity fields.
According to Aristotle, whose writings had remained unquestioned for over a 1,000 years up until Galileo's time, not only did heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, but an object that ...