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How would you show that air has weight?

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drop a piece of paper from the height

A2. An interesting experiment would be to blow up a series of party balloons, (of the same variety) and time their rate of descent when dropped from a height of ten feet or so.

The first balloon will have one puff, the second, two puffs, the 3rd will have 4 puffs, then 8, 16 and so on. Though the puffs are not well calibrated, and the balloons will expand, the balloons at 8 and 16 should be heavier, and should fall faster. The first balloon will have more latex that air compared to its peers, so it will fall fastest (probably), but from there, the time plot should form a smooth curve.

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