Derek Muller of the YouTube science channel Veritasium explains the Magnus effect with a graphic example of basketball dropped from the top of a 126.5 metre dam.
Originally published by Cosmos as How backswing can give a basketball wings
Bill Condie
Bill Condie is a science journalist based in Adelaide, Australia.
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