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Part of an online exhibition created by The Science Faculty in conjunction with the OUDA Project Team in 2014

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Clip 4:	Galileo's inclined plane experiment
Duration:	00:02:35
Date:	1971

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In this clip from S100 the main steps of Galileo's inclined plane experiment are described. The experiment was used to prove Galileo's basic hypothesis that a body falling freely did so with constant acceleration. View clip 4 from S100 programme 1.

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