Re: CAT was Re: Salt Lake City?

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

The arthritic cat is no doubt to wise to put up with such shenanigans.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Cleyet [mailto:anngeorg@PACBELL.NET]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:27 AM
> To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
> Subject: CAT was Re: Salt Lake City?
>
>
> I forgot to mention that, when very young -- before I
> understood angular
> momentum (do I yet?) -- I experimented on our cat.  I found
> (memory) that
> only a few inches were necessary for the cat to successfully
> land on her
> feet.  I held the forepaws with my left hand, etc.
>
> Just tried this on our adolescent cat, Toc.  Can't find our
> arthritic one,
> Xochitl.
>
> report later.
>
> For a diagram, page search: cat;
> http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/dance/dance_physics.html
>
> bc
>
> Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > I remember a "Scientific American"  article on this.  My
> search resulted
> > immediately in a more recent discussion.
> >
> > http://www.wonderquest.com/cat-falling.htm
> >
> > bc  who will attempt to find the article he remembers
> >
> > p.s. he remembers the article, as above does, discussed the
> problem of
> > conservation of angular momentum.
> >
> > Ludwik Kowalski wrote:
> >
> > > There was an article in The Physics Teacher, perhaps ten years
> > > ago, about a mechanical model of a cat dropped in the legs-up
> > > position.  The cat always manages to land in the legs-down
>
> cut