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The Physics of Somersaulting and Twisting

Divers, gymnasts, astronauts and cats can do rotational maneuvers in midair that may seem to violate the law of the conservation of angular momentum but in fact do not

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 242 Issue 3This article was originally published with the title “The Physics of Somersaulting and Twisting” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 242 No. 3 (), p. 154
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0380-154