Posted on 8/12/09. Photos by Andrew Bisdale.

For years, the faculty of first-year Core Natural Sciences kick off their semester by gathering the students of CC105 in the CAS rear parking lot. Their purpose is in strict keeping with the empirical values of investigative science: to determine whether gravity will act on fruit released from the top of a four-story fire escape. These photos were taken during the September 2008 installment of this annual Galilean inquiry.

Photo 1: Prof. James Jackson releases a pineapple and a grapefruit. Conclusion: the force of gravity causes fruit to splatter.