Articles from February 2014
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Breaking ball
Thursday, February 20, 2014
What’s the science that makes a slider slide and a curveball curve? Ken Gayley, associate professor of physics and ardent Dodgers fan, says it’s a basic fluid dynamics question, just like what makes a plane fly or a sailboat slip through the waves or an empty plastic bag on the side of the road fly up in the air when a car drives by.