Cavendish's Physics Festival: Electric Jet Engines and Cricket Ball Swing

For the last 50 years, the Whittle Laboratory in Cambridge has helped to develop the efficient, reliable and safe power generation and aircraft propulsion systems we take for granted today. The next great challenge is to deliver zero carbon power and propulsion and we are working hard to deliver the technologies needed to make this step. Dr Sam Grimshaw's talk will explain the potential and address some of the challenges associated with using zero emission, "Electric Jet Engines", for flight.

The Whittle Lab has a long history of investigating sports aerodynamics. In the second half of the talk, we will see how the science used to design and test jet engines has been used to understand the mysterious art of swing bowling in cricket.