We had a take home quiz in Calc three about finding the torque of a swallow with a coconut under one of its wings (I guess it was laden then, but how it could carry a thing three times its weight I don't know) given how far out on a branch it was perched and how much its total weight was. The result was IIRC that if the branch was spun around the point where it connected to the tree then before the bird was flung off the branch it would have about 53 inch-ounces of torque around that connecting point. =P
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Date: 2007-01-24 03:04 pm (UTC)