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5. Projectile Motion - Galileo and Einstein

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<strong>Galileo</strong>’s Law for <strong>Projectile</strong>s• He asked himself: what would happen if theball rolled off the table?• He claimed (<strong>and</strong> established experimentally)that the balls uniform horizontal motionwould continue as before –• BUT natural vertical falling motion would beadded!• He termed the result “compound motion”.

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