Question: For an object falling freely from rest, show that the distance traveled during each successive second increases in the ration of successive odd integers (1,

For an object falling freely from rest, show that the distance traveled during each successive second increases in the ration of successive odd integers (1, 3, 5, etc). This was first shown by Galileo. See Figs 2-18 and 2-21.

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