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Q.What is Magnus Effect?

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The Magnus effect is the sideways force on a spinning object moving through a fluid, produced by the Bernoulli pressure difference between its faster-air and slower-air sides. It makes spinning balls curve.

When a ball spins as it moves through air, its surface drags a layer of air around with it.

  • On one side of the ball, the surface moves in the same direction as the oncoming air, so the air moves faster there.
  • On the opposite side, the surface moves against the oncoming air, so the air moves slower there.

By Bernoulli's principle, where the fluid speed is greater the pressure is lower, and where the speed is smaller the pressure is higher. So there is higher pressure on the slower-air side and lower pressure on the faster-air side.

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