Videos

Amazing basketball experiment

See the Magnus effect in action. Learn how it works in second-year fluids.

Surfing down the River Severn

In second-year fluids, you'll discover the mechanism behind being able to surf down the River Severn!

Flettner rotor ship

Have you ever seen a ship like this? Find out how the spinning cylinders make it go in second-year fluids.

Fluids in the Sixties

The National Committee for Fluid Mechanics Films was founded in 1961 and released a series of videos aimed at explaining phenomena of fluid mechanics to undergraduate students. To this day, they remain educational, if somewhat (entertainingly) dated in style.

The following YouTube playlist contains most of these films, starting with former provost of UCL, Sir James Lighthill, teaching us about sound with the help of a haunting flute.