The phenomenon whereby the path of a spinning object moving through a fluid is deflected in a manner that does not occur when the object is not spinning, explained by the difference in pressure of the fluid on opposite sides of the object.
Origin
Named after Heinrich Gustav Magnus, the German physicist who investigated it.
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