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The Magnus effect in action. Named after Heinrich Gustav Magnus, this phenomenon is observable in a spinning object. As a ball moves through the air, its spin is moving against the flow of air on one side, towards the air on the other. So, the object drags air faster around one side, creating a difference in pressure that moves THE OBJECT in the direction of the lower-pressure side. Source: Pongfinity http://bit.ly/2LmkCyB | ABC Science

The Magnus effect is a physics phenomenon where a spinning object traveling through a fluid, such as air, experiences a force at a right angle to both its path and its axis of rotation. This happens because the spin changes how air flows around the object—speeding it up on one side and slowing it down on the other, leading to a pressure imbalance. This pressure difference causes the object to curve in flight, a motion often observed in sports like soccer, baseball, and tennis when a spinning bal