when a monkey is released with its legs up,it lands with its legs .who provides torque to it so that it rotates?

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jamesj · Answer

By doing something like this cat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=yGusK69XVlk

ganpat · Answer

The weight inside the monkey is distributed more in legs.. SO it tends to turn it upside down when he the monkey is freely falling.. 

Does that answers your question ?

anonymous · Answer

no

anonymous · Answer

@JamesJ  what does cat do??

anonymous · Answer

@JamesJ  yes i got it

ganpat · Answer

The claw of the monkey is heavier than, its rest of the body.. So when it falls freely the leg tends to go first than his body.. For eg.. if u and ur friend fall freely from certain ht, and say some weight is added to ur friends body.. he will fall faster that you ...

anonymous · Answer

why legs go faster as acceleration will be g

jamesj · Answer

@ganpat, that is most definitely wrong as your explanation of the violation of basic Newtonian physics: the gravitational force near the surface of the earth on a mass $ m $ is $ mg $ which is by Newton's second law equal to $ ma $.  Hence
$$ mg = ma $$
i.e., the acceleration $ a $ for every mass $ m $ is
$$ a = g$$

anonymous · Answer

thats i want to say

anonymous · Answer

I would think that it uses its body to create drag in the air and thus spin?

jamesj · Answer

The monkey doesn't have enough time in fall in order to do this. It almost certainly contorts its body as the cat does.

anonymous · Answer

how it will creat drag and its value will be less so how it can rotate such a mass

ganpat · Answer

@JamesJ : well, m = a i agree.. but mass for different things can vary.. right ?

jamesj · Answer

a = g, not m = a.

ganpat · Answer

i understood that.. a = g = 9.81 m/s2.. But for u m= x N.. anf for me it y N.. How do u define that..