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Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats
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I think his experiment is flawed.

https://www.livescience.com/49539-deflat...ssure.html
A deflated football has a smaller mass because it has fewer gas molecules inside of it. Assuming that the temperature is 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius), the mass of the air in a football inflated to 12.5 psi is about 0.39 ounces (11 g). A football deflated to only 10 psi has a mass of 0.36 ounces (10.2 g). The difference is about the weight of a paper clip, Eads said.

A difference so small should not make for easily reproducible results when humans are doing the throwing.
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Re: Boy wins science fair with entry concluding that Tom Brady cheats - by mikebw - 01-25-2019, 03:06 PM

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