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Why a falling ruler slips through your fingers: gravity as a reaction-time stopwatch
Drop a ruler without warning and you will not catch it at the top. The place where your fingers close is a stopwatch reading: the distance it fell is ½ g t²…
Mind
4 min read
18 Oct