Science has helped man to progress in many fields .Eminent astronomer, physicist and seeker of truth Galileo Galilei was born on February 15,1564 in Pisa a town in Italy.
One Sunday in 1583 Galileo made his first scientific discovery. During a rather boring cermony he watched one of the church lamps gently swinging. This led him to carry out further experiments to investigate the motion of pendulum .Based on this work ,Galileo formulated a law describing the pendulum swing. Later these ideas were used in the construction of the first accurate clocks.
The actual pendulum used by Galileo in his experiments conducted after seeing the lamp’s motion in the church . After carrying out numerous experiments and alternating all the variable he could state with certainty the law which says “whatever the length of a pendulum swing , the time taken to complete the swing is the same
- Neha M. Raut. 8th B
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