Monday, December 13, 2010

Charlotte Mason, Galileo and the Pendulum

GALILEO AND THE PENDULUM
While reading about Galileo's life we learnt that Galileo was bored in church one day and he began observing a very large incense burner swinging from side to side. He started timing the incense burner with his pulse. We did some experiments using string and a piece of plasticine, and then timed the swings of the string changing the distance of the plasticine up and down the string. This experiment can be found at http://www.experiment-resources.com/pendulum-experiment.html .

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