BIO Roller Pigeons Pigeons are bred to display a number of interesting characteristics One breed of pigeon, the “roller,” is remarkable for the fact that it does a number of backward somersaults as it drops straight down toward the ground Suppose a roller pigeon drops from rest and free falls downward for a distance of 14 m. If the pigeon somersaults at the rate at 12 rad/s, how many revolutions has it completed by the end of its fall?
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