Influences of the initial position, initial angle, diameter and number of slender bodies on the falling behaviors of two or three slender bodies in still water have been investigated experimentally. The obtained results are as follows :
(1) The larger the initial angle, the stronger the interference between two slender bodies.
(2) The longer the initial distance between two slender bodies, the longer the time until the first collision. The trailing slender body tends to collide nearer the front end of the leading body.
(3) When the diameter is larger, the attitude and the translational velocity changes more rapidly due to the influence of von Karman's vortex street.
(4) When three pieces of slender body fall down successively, the motion of the last body is complicated because it is simultaneously affected by the flow produced from the preceeding two bodies.
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