IT is a little surprising to find in Dr. Shaw's paper (December 16, 1913), “. . . He (Mr. Whipple) points out that we have no special name for the unit of acceleration.” In NATURE of June 25, 1914, Mr ...

According to legend, Galileo dropped weights off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, showing that gravity causes objects of different masses to fall with the same acceleration. In recent years, researchers ...

Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource can be found on the NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" Web site. The motion of objects fascinated Galileo throughout his life. When ...

DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL, in his recent book, “Measurement and Calculation,” laments the absence of a name for the C.G.S. unit of acceleration, and the phrase “centimetres per second per second” is ...