Norton, John D. (2014) Invariance of Galileo’s Law of Fall under a Change of the Unit of Time. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The inductive problem of extending the sequence 1, 3, 5, 7, is solved when these numbers are the ratios of the incremental distances fallen in successive unit times. The controlling fact is Galileo’s assumption that these ratios are invariant under a change of the unit of time. It admits few laws and only one is compatible with the two-numbered initial sequence 1, 3.
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| Keywords: | Galileo induction fall | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Depositing User: | John Norton | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2014 15:26 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2014 15:26 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 10931 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction Specific Sciences > Physics > Symmetries/Invariances |
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| Date: | 7 August 2014 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10931 |
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