The Magnus Effect Is Used In Many Cool Inventions

Did you know of some or all of these applications that are using this property of physics?

Veritasium has a comment related to undertsnading of the magnus effect posted here:

The biggest misconception about the Magnus Effect is that it is just a consequence of Bernoulli’s principle. It’s not. This can be demonstrated by varying the surface roughness of the ball. Smooth balls can actually curve in the opposite direction due to the ‘reverse Magnus effect’ because flow over one side is laminar while the other is turbulent. This is a great reference on the shortcomings of Bernoulli’s principle explanations: http://math.mit.edu/~bush/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Beautiful-Game-2013.pdf

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