why is it easier to balance a baseball bat with the heavy end up?

Subject: why is it easier to balance a baseball bat with the heavy end up?

Date: Fri Sep 5 17:07:01 2008
Posted by john hannon
Grade level: nonaligned School: No school entered.
City: san luis obispo State/Province: ca Country: usa
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1220659621.Ph

Message:


Please explain why a bat (when balancing on my palm)behaves so differently. It
seems to me that having a center of gravity higher and having a smaller support
surface would make the bat easier to balance with the thin and lighter end
pointing up.

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