User:Shelby thomas15/sandbox

The unreported experiment found in folio 116V tested the constant rate of motion in falling bodies due to gravity. The experiment consisted of dropping a ball from specific heights onto a deflector to change the vertical motion into horizontal motion. He used the rates from the inclined plane to calculate the force translated into horizontal motion. Inconsistencies arose in the results of the experiment. The horizontal distance didn't match the calculation of the constant rate. Galileo attributed the discrepancies to air resistance in the unreported experiment and friction in the inclined plane experiment. These discrepancies forced Galileo to present his idea under ideal conditions, as in with neither friction nor air resistance. Essentially, the math worked because objects accelerated uniformly in time unless acted upon by outside forces, in this case air resistance and friction.