magnus force

You can call it football if it makes you happy. Anyway, this is a popular story going around. The physics of the magic curving soccer kick. Here are two ends of the spectrum. First, there is the lower, easier to consume version from io9.com Physics forced to come up with whole new equation to explain "impossible" soccer kick I will summarize this article for you: "Have you seen these crazy soccer kicks where the ball curves? It happens because the ball spins and physics. Here is a video" Oh, and they have a diagram - which doesn't seem to come from the original paper and they also have…