Caltech Scientists Test Air Flow Over the 2010 World Cup Soccer Ball
The World Cup is in full swing, complete with an official new soccer ball named Jabulani, meaning “to celebrate” in Zulu. The players, however, aren’t exactly celebrating. Instead, many of them are complaining that the ball’s trajectory is too hard to predict. So what exactly is it about the new ball that’s provoking all the controversy? To find out, Caltech engineers put an official Jabulani …
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