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Old 10th Mar 2014, 02:45
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The denser ball will always hit the ground faster, in air, as it has a lower ratio of drag to weight.

Galileo is reported to have used different-sized cannonballs dropped from the tower of Pisa to show that overall mass, popularly thought to determine rate of descent, did not affect the outcome. (Although the bigger cannonball will fall a little faster owing to: a lower ratio of drag to weight.)
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