= Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment
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Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment is an anecdotal account of a famous thought experiment demonstrating that the acceleration due to gravity is the same for all objects, regardless of their mass. The story suggests that Galileo dropped two spheres of different masses (often described as a heavier metal ball and a lighter wooden ball) from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the late 16th century.
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