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Guest rikky

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I have a question about Inertia.

 

You know how when you drop a peice of toast, it lands buttered-side facing upwards? And when cats jump from like high ledges and heights, they always land on their feet? Well, I was wondering: If I was to stick a peice of toast (butter-side up) to the side of a cat, and hurl it off a 9floor balcony from a hotel, would the cat rotate rapidly and propel itself upwards into the air (thus causing inertia), and then these buttered cats would become another form of transporation? Let me know what you think

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The moment of inertia of a solid object such as a cat or a buttered piece of toast is dependent on mass. Since the toast has a negligible mass compared to the cat, its moment of inertia does not contribute to the total moment of inertia of the system, hence the toast can be ignored and the cat would just go splat.

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