Re: .Bernoulli and curve balls.

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

Leigh Palmer writes:

> When you've all figured out how to explain all natural phenomena in
> terms of high school physics, I would like some help on a problem
> I've been wondering about for some time. Why does a spinning
> curling stone curl the way it does? Every simple explanation I can
> think of has it curling the opposite way. I know it curves in the
> "common sense" direction, but I'm unsatisfied by that explanation.

Which way *does* it curl? And is it related to the tippy top problem?

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