{"id":127610,"date":"2015-10-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?guid=37f85c44f3b104727d11ef702580b901"},"modified":"2015-10-08T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T23:00:00","slug":"galileo-and-the-equivalence-principle-a-faulty-argument-with-the-correct-conclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/?p=127610","title":{"rendered":"Galileo and the equivalence principle: a faulty argument with the correct conclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Galileo asserted that the fall of bodies is independent of their weight. Whether or not he relied on<br \/>\nactual experiments, he explicitly argued in his writings that this fact could be proved by purely<br \/>\nlogical reasoning. However, there is an important flaw in the argument he provided. Clarification of<br \/>\nthis point may help one to grasp the full significance of the equivalence principle, which is<br \/>\nusually overlooked in many physics courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galileo asserted that the fall of bodies is independent of their weight. Whether or not he relied on<br \/>\nactual experiments, he explicitly argued in his writings that this fact could be proved by purely<br \/>\nlogical reasoning. However, there is an important f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-127610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-rss-fuusikaharidus","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fyysika.ee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}