FROM NOTES :
Galileo Galilei
Inertia: Aristotle—an object at rest tends to stay at rest. Galileo---an object maintains its motion unless acted on by a force.
Discovered by Galileo, using an inclined plane:
Galileo also developed the pendulum clock to measure this acceleration.
Galileo’s pendulum clock
Galileo’s mind experiment. He never did it. g whiz!
Motion is relative to the observer: Bullet velocity differs on and off the Rocket. Galileo discovered basic relativity!
Galileo’s Telescope
Galileo found mountains on the moon and calculated their height from the shadows they cast, using trigonometry.
He discovered 4 moons of Jupiter things orbit other planets.
Venus never gets full (washed out by sun), and phases get smaller approaching full! Venus orbits the sun (Galileo). The church forced Galileo to recant of his support of the sun centered system.
He saw spots on the sun, and watched them move! sun spins!