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Re: MOMENT OF INERTIA




Suppose you were standing on a frictionless surface. Could you lean
forward? Could you change the position of your center of mass?

Mervin Koehlinger

Yes for the following conditions:


No. Sorry. You cannot move your center of mass without a force from
outside the body. But you could lean forward. All that would happen is
that your legs would go backward. Ask an astronaut.
J. Epstein