Why does a boomerang come back? Each arm is a wing, and because it spins
while it flies, the top wing moves through the air far faster than the
bottom one.
That uneven lift pushes it sideways, and a spinning object that’s pushed
doesn’t tip over — it turns (gyroscopic precession). So its path bends
into a circle, and the circle comes back round to you.
THE NUMBERS (a typical sport-boomerang throw)
Launch speed 24 m/s, spin 10 revolutions a second, 15 cm to the tip.
Top wing: 24 + 9.4 = 33.4 m/s. Bottom wing: 24 − 9.4 = 14.6 m/s.
Lift grows with speed squared: (33.4 / 14.6)² ≈ 5.3 — at launch, the top
pushes about five times harder than the bottom.
Thrown nearly upright (~20° from vertical), so that push is sideways.
Why it comes back however hard you throw: the sideways push a circle
needs is m·v²/R, and the lift is k·v² — v² cancels, so R = m/k, and the
circle stays roughly the same size (about 22 m across here).
Simplified on purpose: the 5× is the extreme top-vs-bottom case at the
moment of release, and why the boomerang lays over flatter as it flies is
shown, not explained — the full account involves how lift differs across
the front and back of the spinning disc.
Known Space —
source
Torque.
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mmmno i still don't get it
Centripetal force
No enough eyes on this
Real use of ai
Even though the voice is ai, I am sure the video is not,
Respect to the creator the content was delivered properly
Dint understand but i understood 🙏🥀
Is the voice actor @vt.physics?
Animation was perfect, just cuz ai voice used, could not watch the whole short lol
That is not true, it comes back to you by witchcraft and enchantment of loyalty
(humor)
😂😂😂
Ok dis peak if not ai
Pls dont tell me ts is ai
Good
how did Rudyard Kipling knows this, he mentioned this tool in Mowgli
This told me something, boomerangs can come back to the thrower.
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This deserve more attention
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