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2. Galileo showed that Aristotle was wrong about "natural motion." How did Galileo show this.oHe devloped the law of Universal Gravitation.OHe devloped the concepts of "circular motion" and "violent motion.
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2. Galileo showed that Aristotle was wrong about "natural motion." How did Galileo show this.oHe devloped the law of Universal Gravitation.OHe devloped the concepts of "circular motion" and "violent motion."oHe showed that a force is required to cause motion.OHe showed that all objects fall at the same rate.

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Aristotle's principle of 'natural motion' stated that a falling object experienced a definite force that is proportional to the weight of the object.

Galileo disproved this by showing that all the falling objects have the same speed.

Thus the correct answer is "He showed that all the objects fall at the same rate".

That is option d is the correct answ

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