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Very cool! Also: might not absolute amplitude (volume) give away a lot of mass information relative to a control mass? "The bigger they are, the louder they fall" kinda deal?


Didn't they account for that? "Since the energy of a coin, if it's falling from a fixed height, is proportional to its mass, I would expect the sound energy to be proportional to its mass as well. So, this is what I did. I integrated the power spectral densities and fit them to a linear relationship with respect to the mass. I obtained:"




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