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A student has two identical sheets of paper. he crumples one up into a small ball. if he drops the sheet of paper and the ball of paper off a building at the same time, which will reach the ground first
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A student has two identical sheets of paper. he crumples one up into a small ball. if he drops the sheet of paper and the ball of paper off a building at the same time, which will reach the ground first and why?

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The air resistance acting on the un-crumbled sheet is greater.
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The small ball will because air resistance has less effect on it than it does on the piece of paper. Physics 101 here. I love Physics!
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