Is it true that Robert Boyle’s experiments disproved Galileo’s theory that all the bodies fall with the same speed towards the Earth?

see full answer

Your Exam Success, Personally Taken Care Of

1:1 expert mentors customize learning to your strength and weaknesses – so you score higher in school , IIT JEE and NEET entrance exams.

An Intiative by Sri Chaitanya

True

False

answer is B.

(Unlock A.I Detailed Solution for FREE)

Best Courses for You

JEE

NEET

Foundation JEE

Foundation NEET

CBSE

Detailed Solution

The above statement is false.
Galileo's law of free falling states that in the absence of air, all bodies fall with the same acceleration, irrespective of their mass.
To test Galileo's arguments, the British scientist Robert Boyle did some experiments. He kept a coin and a feather in a glass jar and created a vacuum inside the jar using a vacuum pump. He then allowed both the coin and feather to fall into the vacuum. In his experiments, he observed that both the coin and the feather fell on the ground simultaneously, proving that Galileo was right.
So the correct statement would be that Robert Boyle's experiment proved Galileo's theory that all the bodies fall with the same speed towards the Earth.

Watch 3-min video & get full concept clarity