WINNER Toy Box Physics: smoke rings, mushroom clouds and vortexes

This was the winning entry for the Toy Box Physics Contest. I describe how vortices / vortexes are made and show how to make them. I also describe when they occur in nature, including the mushroom cloud, dolphins and an air cannon. SEE LINK: http://www.physicscentral.com/experiment/contests/toybox/index.cfm

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Toy
• Box
• Physics
• Vortex
• Mushroom
• Cloud
• James
• Lincoln
• Smoke
• Rings
• atomic
• bomb
• vortexes
• vorticies
• smokerings

[TheMichelleChristine]

Sick.

[wafflegod13]

waste of turkish golds*

[laxguru601]

that air cannon is sick

[geckoboy222]

AWESOME!

[AntiHero1303]

holy shit, i actually thought this was gonna be a real boring science lesson but man, that was actually really interesting with the vortex gun having visible force of air by smoke rings and showing the visibility of the spinning vortex water in t he cup using food dye, james lincoln your actually a good scientist coming from a pretty ignorant teenager! :P

[MrInsects]

u didnt tell us how to make mushroom cloud D:

[tont0124]

Thunder gun from cod zombies?

[lilchamp325stunna]

was'nt this on ellen degeneres show?

[maxpower6789]

its a toy called airzooka

hope this helps