Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Professor Julius Sumner Miller finds pure joy in the ordinary world and cannot rest until you feel it too, in the ABC’s classic science show, Why Is It So? Stream more documentaries now on ABC iview: ab.co/ABCScienceDocos

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:52 Bob Sanders Sets The Scene
01:29 Bernoulli's Rolling Wheel
07:30 Last Episode's Problems Answered
09:40 "But Why Is It So?"
10:00 Double Bubble Trouble
16:38 Pendulum Experiment
21:30 How Cowboy Lassos Work
25:25 The Spinning Football Explained
27:20 The Spinning Propeller
29:19 End Credits

This episode of Why Is It So? were first broadcast in 1962 by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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