A simple model for the falling cat problem

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/AAAC06MaRDI QIDQ4571708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hanno Essén, A. B. Nordmark

Publication date 29 June 2018

Published in European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaac06

zbMATH Keywords

falling cat problemfour degrees-of-freedom systemfour-particle modelzero angular momentum rotation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free motion of a rigid body (70E15) Dynamics of multibody systems (70E55)

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