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A shiny, spherical, metal alien jumps out of a perfectly good airplane and skydives for a few seconds. Its photographic friend snaps photos of the sphere with a special camera that also captures the forces on the object.
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This diagram shows a few of the snapshots, but they are out of order. Place them in
order, from the instant it jumps out of the plane and begins free-fall until the time it
attains terminal velocity.
OLY, J, Q
OJ,Y, L, J
OL, Q, J
OQY
OL,J,Q
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