Galileo and Experimental Science

How did Galileo determine the movement of a pendulum?

• He used Newton's notebooks as a guide to figure it out

• He did careful experiments with clocks

• He used a stopwatch and graphed the movement

• He observed chandeliers swaying in church

How did Galileo record the data from the phenomena he observed?

• He memorized all his data

• He kept a notebook

• His wife was his secretary

• In one of the first computers

Galileo is most famous for his work in what field?

• Earth science

• Biology

• Astronomy

• mathmatics

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How was he able to determine the dots of light around Jupiter were moons and not stars?

• He observed their movement for many days and recorded their positions and saw that they orbit Jupiter

• The planets twinkled when he observed them with a telescope, whic stars don't do.

• He received radio messages from the aliens living their.

• He took very detailed photographs of the moons.

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What controversial theory did Galileo support?

• The Theory of Evolution

• The Sun-Centered Solar system

• Newton's Laws on gravity

• Theory of Relativity

What was Galileo's punishment for his theory?

• 20 years hard labor

• the death penalty

• He was put under house arrest for the rest of his life

• He was fined a large sum of money

The passage used the sentence "With it (telescope), he made observations that revolutionized our understanding of the universe." What does "revolutionized" mean in that sentence?

• To change the government by a war

• to make several turns.

• disproved a commonly held belief

• to completely change the way we think of something

How did NASA honor Galileo's contribution to science?

• He won the Nobel prize for physics

• They named a space probe after him

• A building was named after him

• He was promoted

Where was galileo born?

• Pisa, Italy

• Nuremburg, Germany

• Rome, Italy

• London, England