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THE interesting article in NATURE, April 29, by R. W. Wood, on the orbits of a steel ball about a magnet pole, suggests to me that it may interest some of your readers to hear of another plan for showing these orbits, which, but for the slight resistance of the air, is very nearly theoretically accurate, and in which the proper initial velocities are easily produced.
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ROMANES, G. Planetary Orbits, Illustrated by a Rolling Ball. Nature 56, 174 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056174c0
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