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When Galileo was formulating the laws of motion, he considered the motion of a body starting from rest and falling under gravity. He originally thought that the velocity of such a falling body was proportional to the distance it had fallen. What do the experimental data in Table 1.6 tell you about Galileo’s hypothesis? What alternative hypothesis is suggested by the two sets of data in Table 1.6 and Table 1.7?
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