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The leaning bell tower of Pisa was finished in 1350, is 179 feet high, and leans more than 15 feet out of vertical. From its top, Galileo reputedly dropped two balls of different weights to find our if the heavier fell faster. See this issue's "Panorama" for more about that experiment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editorial

Mercury: The Swift Messenger
by J. Timothy Unruh

Heavier Objects Fall Faster
by J. N. Hanson

Readers' Forum

Panorama


Translated from WS2000 on 11 February 2005 by ws2html.