conservation of angular momentum


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conservation of angular momentum

[‚kän·sər′vā·shən əv ′aŋ·gyə·lər mə′men·təm]
(mechanics)
The principle that, when a physical system is subject only to internal forces that bodies in the system exert on each other, the total angular momentum of the system remains constant, provided that both spin and orbital angular momentum are taken into account.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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