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By Neil deGrasse Tyson

Things You Thought You Knew – The Fast and The Friction

S13 E22

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Published July 08, 2022 2:00am

What is the Magnus Effect? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore physics through spin, banking, and angular momentum. Why are race tracks banked? 

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Photo Credit: Brandon Zeman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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