Why can a free-falling cat always manage to land safely on its feet?

DOI10.1007/S11071-014-1741-2MaRDI QIDQ490461zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shengchao Zhen, Kang Huang, Han Zhao, Ye-Hwa Chen

Publication date 27 August 2015

Published in Nonlinear Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-014-1741-2

zbMATH Keywords

equation of motionfree-falling catUdwadia-Kalaba formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Dynamical systems in classical and celestial mechanics (37N05) Other variational principles in mechanics (70H30) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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