Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics / Gregory J. Gbur.
How do cats land on their feet? Discover how this question stumped brilliant minds and how its answer helped solve other seemingly impossible puzzles The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye opening history, physicist and cat parent Grego...
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Yale University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Famous physicists' fascination with falling felines
- The (solved?) puzzle of the falling cat
- Horses in motion
- Cats on film
- Going round and round
- Cats rock the world
- The cat-righting reflex
- Cats ... in ... space!
- Cats as keepers of mysteries
- Rise of the robotic cats
- The challenges of cat-turning
- Falling felines and fundamental physics
- Scientists and their cats.