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I believe that the two unequal but connected masses was the Gedanken Expt. that Galileo describes in his writing.I briefly reviewed the discussions of the Two New Sciences, but I found no description with this arrangement, so I expect that it occurred in some earlier, less digested version of the study of motion?
If heavier things fall faster, then cutting the string would make them both slow down.