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1. Galileo and Aristotle had different conceptions of vertical, horizontal, and projectile motion. According to Aristotle, gravity causes downward motion while Galileo analyzed motion in separate horizontal and vertical components. 2. Galileo inferred that objects fall with uniform acceleration in a vacuum due to inertia, not a downward force of gravity. 3. Position vs. time graphs show an object's location over time while velocity vs. time graphs show how speed changes. Constant velocity motion graphs are linear but constant acceleration graphs are parabolic, showing changing speed due to gravity.

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1. Galileo and Aristotle had different conceptions of vertical, horizontal, and projectile motion. According to Aristotle, gravity causes downward motion while Galileo analyzed motion in separate horizontal and vertical components. 2. Galileo inferred that objects fall with uniform acceleration in a vacuum due to inertia, not a downward force of gravity. 3. Position vs. time graphs show an object's location over time while velocity vs. time graphs show how speed changes. Constant velocity motion graphs are linear but constant acceleration graphs are parabolic, showing changing speed due to gravity.

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Activity worksheet # 1

1. Compare and contrast the Aristotelian and Galilean conceptions of vertical motion, horizontal motion,
and projectile motion.
According to Aristotelian conceptions about vertical motion if two objects dropped together have
different weight of the same height, then it will hit the ground at the same time. In Horizontal motion if
there is no any interference, a moving object will keep on moving the same with Galilean conceptions
about vertical and horizontal motion. And lastly the projectile motion, here both of them have different
theory, as stated by Aristotle, projectile motion is influenced by the downward force of gravity while
Galileo’s projectile motion states that by analysing the horizontal and vertical components separately it’ll
arrive to the projectile motion. (https://brainly.in/question/2348736)

2. Explain how Galileo inferred that objects in vacuum fall with uniform acceleration, and that the force is
not necessary to sustain horizontal motion.
Galileo inferred that objects in a vacuum fall in a uniform acceleration. Saying that objects fall at
constant acceleration which is found in the principle of the Law of Inertia. Meaning to say, the object's
speed rises with equal augmentation among equal intervals of time which the space travelled by them in
those equal time intervals are not equal. (https://brainly.in/question/1753174)

3. Explain how the position vs. time, and velocity vs. time graphs of constant velocity motion are
different from those of constant acceleration motion.

The velocity vs. time graph was actually acquired from the so called position vs. time graph. The
velocity vs. time graph divulges the objects speed whether it slows down or speeds up while the position
vs. time graph delineate objects motion over a period of time. Position vs. time graph reveals a very
important information about the velocity of the object. Hence the velocity vs. time is derived from the
position vs. time.1 While the constant acceleration motion, on the other hand, object in motion will always
have a constant acceleration when dropped because it is always under the influence of gravity. 2

(https://sciencing.com/difference-graph-position-time-graph-8472236.html)1

(http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/301/lectures/node18.html)2

4. Explain the subtle distinction between Newton’s 1st Law of motion (or Law of Inertia) and Galileo’s
assertion that force is not necessary to sustain horizontal motion.

Newton's first law in action It would stay at rest indefinitely without any external force acting


upon it. It describes the behavior of a massive object in uniform linear motion or at rest. It states that an
object in motion will always remain in motion and object at rest will always remain at rest unless it is
acted upon by external force. It is just very simple, objects can’t stop, start nor change direction al by
themselves. It will always require from the outside acting upon them to cause such change. This work of
Newton was expanded from the earlier work of Galileo, who first developed the first accurate laws of
motion for masses. It was shown to us that all object accelerate at the same rate regardless of size and
mass. (https://www.livescience.com/46559-newton-first-law.html)

5. Explain the statement “Newton’s Laws of Motion are axioms while Kepler’s laws of planetary motion
are empirical laws.”

The laws of motion are self-evident or axioms while Kepler’s laws of planetary motion are
empirical laws. Why? Because Newton’s law states that attraction of two object that has force to each
other that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of
the distance between them and an axiom is accepted as the truth. While the law of planetary motion of
Kepler stating that law of Ellipses, wherein, the path of planets about the sun is elliptical in shape, with
the center of the sun is at its focus. The law of harmonies is the ration of the squares of the periods of any
two planet is equal to the ratio of the cubes or their average distance from the sun.
(httpshttps://www.google.com/amp/s/ericajanesite.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/225/amp/)

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