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Thanks Zapper, that makes sense.

So aerodynamic drag is acting upon them - sure. But to the same degree for both, surely? If aerodynamic drag is the same for both (excepting small deformations in shape I suppose, but that would not be great enough to explain the fact), how would the fact that it is acting upon them explain a...

Could anyone offer me a little help with understanding why the principles demonstrated in Galileo's (probably fictional, I know) experiment involving two spheres of the same mass from a tower don't apply in the following situation please? As I understand it, the principle is essentially that...