The experiments Galileo performed, such as rolling a ball down an inclined plane

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The experiments Galileo performed, such as rolling a ball down an inclined plane, are important because they represented a radical change in how scientists learn about the physical world. showed the experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa was faulty. led Galileo to develop a full, accurate understanding of gravity. confirmed that the Aristotelian approach to physics was correct. Incorrect. Galileo made important advances in the understanding of motion, but a full, accurate understanding of gravity did not come until the work of Isaac Newton several decades later.

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Represented a radical change in how scientist learn about the physical world. He performed the gravity experiment using manual setups to prove his point of objects falling under gravity will fall under constant gravity.

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