On the angular motion of a freely fallin
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D. J. Gerritsen; M. Kuipers
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Article
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1979
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Springer
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English
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From the earliest times it is known that a cat always falls on its feet even when dropped upside down. This behaviour, clearly showing that in this relation it is not correct to consider an animal body as a rigid one, was qualitatively understood by Lecornu in 1894. Some decades later Rademaker and