Hold the tennis ball and basketball so that they are touching, with the tennis ball on top. Drop the balls with the basketball on the bottom. The tennis ball will fly off with greatly increased ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...

The physics underlying the ... the delicate drop shot that brings them forward. And you might watch for players who put sidespin on the ball, the effects of which I'm sure you can now guess.

[Dino] wanted to make this New Year’s celebration a bit more interesting, but he can’t make it to New York for the ball drop. Instead, he decided to make his own mini display in his workshop.