If you’re up to a challenge and want to get into the deeper mathematics of lift, check out Raskin’s article. He’s also got a great bibliography of other material about aerodynamics and baseballs, soccer balls and spinning cylinders. Knock yourself out!

Once you start digging into aerodynamics you’re into all kinds of effects. Besides the Bernoulli effect, you’ve got the Coanda effect and the Magnus rise effect. You start messing around with fluid dynamics, viscosity and all the math—holy smokes, the MATH!