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📅 NSB 2019🎓 HS🔄 Round 4#️⃣ Q18❓ TOSS-UP✍️ Short Answer

Galileo's theory of gravity states that objects will fall at the same speed regardless of their weight. Due to the atmosphere, however, some objects fall faster than others. Rank the following three objects in increasing order of their speed one second after being dropped from a building: 1) One-gram feather; 2) One-gram solid-iron sphere; 3) One-gram solid-iron cube.

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