Meaning

1 senses
  1. The vector product that describes the rotary inertia of a system about an axis and is conserved in a closed system. For an isolated rigid body, it is a measure of the extent to which an object will continue to rotate in the absence of an applied torque.

    Drehimpuls

    моме́нт и́мпульсаmomént ímpulʹsa

More definitions
  • the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation

Examples

1 sentences
  1. This is due to conservation of angular momentum.

    deDas ist der Erhaltung des Drehmoments zu verdanken. — Jens_Odo

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Forms

plural: angular momenta
Singularangular momentum
Pluralangular momenta

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