01.04 Forces in Action

You will be helping Galileo perform the experiment to determine if objects with different mass fall at the same, or different, rates in the air and in a vacuum. Before you conduct your experiment, you need to form a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a prediction of what you think will happen in the experiment. The hypothesis is a statement that describes “if” a certain set of circumstances are present “then” there will be a specific result that will occur.


1.) Record the results from step two of the experiment (dropping the objects in a vacuum):

First trial:

Second trial:

Third trial: ​