When Galileo was formulating the laws of motion, heconsidered the motion of a body

Chapter 1, Problem 60

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When Galileo was formulating the laws of motion, heconsidered the motion of a body starting from rest andfalling under gravity. He originally thought that the velocityof such a falling body was proportional to the distanceit had fallen. What do the experimental data in Table1.6 tell you about Galileos hypothesis? What alternativehypothesis is suggested by the two sets of data inTable 1.6 and Table 1.7?

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