On a Theoretical Proof of the Weak Equivalence Principle from within the confines of Newtonian Gravitation.
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2011-11-17
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arXiv
Abstract
The great Italian scientist and philosopher, Galileo Galilee, is reported to have stood
at the learning tower of Pisa in Italy and famously dropped objects of different masses
(and compositions), thereby demonstrating that the motion of matter in a gravitational
field is independent of the body’s composition since these objects, despite their different
masses (and compositions), their free-fall time was practically equal. By so doing, Galileo
demolished a more than one and a half millennium of dogma that had been set forth
by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, namely that, in a gravitational field, heavier objects
fall faster than lighter ones. Galileo’s conclusion is a posteriori justified current scientific
dogma, we all accept this as a durable fact of experience. Gently and modestly, this
reading appears to furnish this hypothesis. We unambiguously demonstrate beyond any
shadow of doubt that Newtonian gravitation implies that gravitational and inertial mass
are equal.
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Newtonian gravitation, Weak equivalance principle
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Nyambuya G.G. (2011). On a Theoretical Proof of the Weak Equivalence Principle from within the confines of Newtonian Gravitation. arXiv