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Friday, April 22, 2011

Science of Tornados

Scientific American has a set of videos and articles about tornadoes, which are in the news after killer storms hit the south. Of course, there is a good deal of physics in these storms, with conservation of angular momentum playing a role as the 'twister' forms.