Like a pendulum do
One time while sitting in church, Galileo noticed a lamp suspended from the ceiling that was swinging back and forth. That motion is known as a pendulum. As it swung, he observed the lamp kept the same rate of speed. It occurred to Galileo that you could use a pendulum’s regular rate of speed to regulate a clock.
We learned that in Galileo’s time a clock was powered by a weight that slowly…
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