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Educators, Students

Grade Levels

Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Higher Education

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History, Physical Science, Historical Overviews, Forces and Motion, Gravity, Physics

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In the folklore of physics, no story is better known than the tale of Galileo dropping balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and proving that gravity accelerates all objects equally. But was Galileo correct?
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