Galileo with the two masses on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa Experiment
In 1589, Galileo did an experiment that is known as the “Leaning Tower of Pisa Experiment” which ultimately supported that time of descent is independent of their mass. The experiment was that he dropped two balls that were made with the same material but had different masses. Galileo dropped both of them at the same time from the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and as a result, both balls landed at the bottom at the exact same time.
Galileo’s discovery that the mass has no effect on acceleration disproved Aristotle’s theory of gravity which states that speed is relative to its mass.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment proves and supports that any object will go at the same acceleration regardless of their mass. This idea ultimately led to the Law of Free Fall.
This experiment was one of many experiments that Galileo did that contributed a lot to modern science and its laws.