Important Topics
1. Falling bodies.
2. Galileo's experiment.
3. Acceleration due to gravity.
4. Laws of falling bodies.
Exercises
1. How far does a body fall during the first second? Account for the fact that this distance is numerically equal to half the acceleration.
2. (a) What is the velocity of a falling body at the end of the first second? (b) How far does it fall during the second second? (c) Account for the difference between these numbers.
3. What is the velocity of a falling body at the end of the fifth second?