Fluid Dynamics of a Floating Screwdriver

By Anupum Pant

Golf balls are dimpled and tennis balls are fuzzy. That makes them travel fast, by preventing a drag that would created behind smooth balls. The screwdriver floating mysteriously in air, when pointed with a jet of air does that because it’s like a smooth ball being held up by a low pressure zone created behind it, counteracting gravity.

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