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DCS# 1C20.10NWU# M-29
title: Coin and Feather
aka: Free fall

Description:
Evacuated glass tube has a coin and feather inside.  Invert tube to see fall.
Smaller tube requires a vacuum pump.

Questions:
  Why is the fall so different in air?
pix of apparatusapparatus close up