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Why do leather and plastic footballs not swerve the same way? When kicking a leather fooball with the outside of my right foot, the ball will swerve away to the right. However, when I kick a lighter, plastic ball, with the outside of the same foot, it swerves to the left. Why the difference?
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Asked by martinbeckett
on 2010-05-05 15:03:34

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Categories: Domestic Science.

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