... on December 25, 1642, the year that Galileo died. As a child, Newton was considered puny and was at the bottom of his class academically. One day Newton became furious from the taunting of a school bully, so he challenged the bully to a fight. Newton won, and his teacher then challenged him to surpass ... room and began a series of experiments where he determined that neither the size of the arc or the weight of the hanging object affected the time of the swing. Only the length of the chain could alter the time of the swing. This experimentation resulted in Galileo's Law of the Pendulum...

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