Toy Box Physics: smoke rings, mushroom clouds and vortexes

Toy Box Physics: smoke rings, mushroom clouds and vortexes


This was the winning entry for the Toy Box Physics Contest by James Lincoln. He describes how vortices / vortexes are made and shows how to make them. He also shows when they occur in nature, including the mushroom cloud, dolphins and an air cannon.

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James Lincoln

  James Lincoln

Tarbut V' Torah High School

Irvine, CA, USA

James Lincoln teaches Physics in Southern California and has won several science video contests and worked on various projects in the past few years. James has consulted on TV's "The Big Bang Theory" and WebTV's "This vs. That" and the UCLA Physics Video Project.

Contact: James@PhysicsVideos.net

September 10, 2014 Collin Wassilak

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