Things You Thought You Knew – The Fast and The Friction

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	This is Star Talk's sports edition.
0:16.0	Neil deGrasse Tyson here.
0:17.0	You're a personal astrophysicist.
0:19.0	Got with me my two co-host Gary O'Reilly, Gary.
0:22.0	I knew.
0:23.0	All right.
0:24.0	I always get to have you guys here and chuck nice, of course.
0:27.0	Hey, hey, hey, what's happening, guys?
0:29.0	So I just to be clear, I engaged in high school and intercollegiate athletics.
0:34.0	Gary was a professional soccer player in the UK.
0:38.0	And Chuck, you've done no organized sports.
0:41.0	I have watched sports, sir.
0:43.0	Okay.
0:44.0	You watched organized sports.
0:45.0	And I have also thrown several super bowl parties, which is organizing sports.
0:51.0	That's that counts.
0:52.0	So this counts.
0:53.0	All right.
0:54.0	That's right.
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