Aristotle
It's neat how the universe works. Through out our existence we had our pros and cons. The way we dealt with problems was with or knowledge that we had with our experiences in life, we developed some theories and methods to find the answer to any major questions we had in life. We still have not yet figured every answer to all or problems but every day, every week and every year we are getting closer and closer. What are some of the questions we ask ourselves and what are some of the problems we encountered? Well there is gravity, we never knew that gravity was there. We never had an idea what it was way back, until someone got interested in why things dropped at what speed and why? Also there was friction, what caused things to heat up when they moved along another surface, why it slowed down. To figure out these problems we have scientists or philosophers to help figure these questions out.Aristotle was born in 384 BC and raised in Stagira in northern Greece. His father was a great physician who had great connections with the Macedonian court, which was maintained by his son Aristotle and by his school, even when he passed it was well preserved and taken care of. It may have been his father's influence tha
t gave Aristotle a strong interest in anatomy and the structure of living things in general, helping him develop an excellent talent for observations. Aristotle was not just a physics man, he was also a astronomer and a philosopher, which are just a few of many of the categories he could have been put into. However, on the physics side of Aristotle, he came up with a theory that stated that objects would fall at a constant speed and that the speed would depend on the mass of the object. This theory went unchallenged for some 2000 years. Now, like most people, Aristotle did not disprove his own theory, it was actually Galileo who disproved Aristotle's theory. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Galileo challenged Aristotle's theory by stating that, objects did not fall at a constant speed and that a speed did not rely on mass, they accelerate. To test this theory, Galileo produced an experiment that involved rolling a ball down an inclined plane. He said that this would be the same motion of that of a "free falling body", but the plane would make it easier to calculate the time intervals by slowing the ball down. He used a container with a hole in it to calculate the time. He measured the time by finding the mass of the water that ran through the hole during the time interval it took the ball to run down the slope. Thus the fact that he applied the following equation that is used even
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