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Crescent Moon Shapes: Waxing vs Waning, Northern vs Southern Hemisphere

Is the shape of the crescent Moon like a ‘C’ or inverted ‘C’? What factors determine the shape? Get answers to these questions and many more.

How we got that

This explains how we arrived at the equation that determines that the time taken by a freely falling object is independent of the mass.

Galileo’s Legendary Leaning Tower Experiment

Galileo’s legendary experiment from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in the 16th century to demonstrate the nature of falling objects.