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A common office toy consists of five steel balls, each suspended by two strings and each touching the adjacent ball(s). When a ball at the end is raised and then dropped, it hits the adjacent ball and the ball at the other end rises. Why?

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A common office toy consists of five steel balls, each suspended by two strings and each touching the adjacent ball(s). When a ball at the end is raised and then dropped, it hits the adjacent ball and the ball at the other end rises. Why?






 
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