A note on somersaulting and twisting

✍ Scribed by M. Kuipers

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 383 KB
• Volume: 21
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-0833
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00127466

✦ Synopsis

In this note we consider a body performing a somersaulting motion combined with torque-free twists. The latter rotation is assumed to be initiated by an instantaneous change of the configuration of the diving body just after the start of the somersault. We comment on the following issues: the realization of a discontinuous change of configuration, the calculation of the resulting angular velocities and the question how the number of twists can be increased.