Timeline for Easy to perform quantitative experiments at home
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 21:04 | comment | added | Pere | To avoid friction, you can use rotation. Your objects can be similar balls of similar size or you can use a toy cart that can be loaded with different weights. A couple of meters of model train track and an open wagon can be close enough to a frictionless inclined plane. | |
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 15:48 | comment | added | Yashas | The frictional forces are going to be an issue. The frictional force depends on the surface of the object so there is no guarantee that the objects will reach the bottom of the inclined plane at the same time. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 15:47 | history | edited | Yashas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 15:43 | comment | added | Yashas | Excellent idea. You can use inclined planes. Objects of different weights will reach the bottom at the same time. The inclined plane is a good way to reduce the net translational accleration. | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 15:16 | comment | added | user1583209 | Thanks. I was thinking about dropping objects from height but this does not seem easy to implement in practice. You need a rather large height and need to measure time precisely. Has anybody after Galilei actually done this (without any electronic means)? Perhaps easier to do something similar with inclined planes!? | |
| Feb 27, 2017 at 15:08 | history | edited | Yashas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 27, 2017 at 14:48 | history | answered | Yashas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |