Chapter 19 Angular Momentum

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Chapter 19 Angular Momentum Introduction ........................................ ........................................ ........................... 1 Angular Momentum about a Point for a Particle ........................................ ...... 2 Angular Momentum for a Point Particle ........................................ ............. 2 Right-Hand-Rule for the Direction of the Angular Momentum ............... 3 Example Angular Momentum : Constant velocity ........................................ 4 Example Angular Momentum and Circular Motion ..................................... 5 Example Angular Momentum About a Point along Central Axis for Circular Motion.

on the fixed axis, (often taken to be the z-axis, but not always) which rotates with angular velocity ω about this axis. The angular momentum is then the vector sum of the individual angular momenta, 1 Kleppner, Daniel, An Introduction to Mechanics (1973), p. 307.

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