Mechanics

A silvery, dancing vortex appears in rotating water.

Get things rolling.

Step into an indoor version of a powerful natural vortex.

Ping-pong balls take a spin through a toothpick San Francisco.

These balls dance in changing patterns as they swing to their own rhythms.

This moving loop of chain sets up strange, hovering wave patterns.

Which wheel rolls downhill the fastest?

Linked pendulums can get one another going.

Let this gyroscope take you for a spin.

Suspend a ball in a stream of air.

At first glance, the giant see-through-erector-set-like structure seems to be a realization of one of Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical inventions.

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