What did Galileo observe when he used double inclined planes in his experiment to observe the motion of objects on inclined planes?

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The ball rolled down from the one inclined plane will not roll up to the other plane at all.

The ball rolled down from the one inclined plane will roll up to the same height of the first plane.

The ball rolled down from the one inclined plane will roll up to half of the original height of the first plane.

None of the above

answer is B.

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Galileo observed that the ball rolled down from the one inclined plane will roll up to the same height as the first plane when he used double inclined planes in his experiment to observe the motion of objects on inclined planes.
When Galileo used double inclined planes in his experiment to observe the motion of objects on inclined planes, he observed that when a ball is rolled down from one plane from a specific height then the ball will climb to the same height on the other plane.

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