Flying Toilet Rolls - Science from the Sporran
I made this!
Dr Otherford demonstrates the Magnus effect, or how spinning a ball affects it's flight...
"A sporting Dr Otherford inspects the qualified merits of a vigorous games technique known as 'backspin' in which a cardboard cylinder, that one hesitates to venture originated from a temple of convenience, is unbound from a rotary swathe of elastic and proceeds along the most remarkable of trajectories."
(
TheAlmightyBeev, Fri 30 Jan 2009, 10:17,
Reply)
