How to Use angular momentum in a Sentence

angular momentum

noun

• As a boat rolls, the angular momentum of the flywheel creates a reaction force that transmits through the mounts to the hull of the boat.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
• To conserve angular momentum, the moon speeds up a teensy tiny amount, and thus moves away from us.
  — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
• But things like angular momentum and the heat of friction fight against the pull of gravity.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
• But Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck knew that this kind of angular momentum couldn’t be the source of Pauli’s new number.
  — Adam Becker, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2022
• It might be described with just its mass, angular momentum and charge.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2019
• It might be described with just its mass, angular momentum, and charge.
  — Wired, 8 Sep. 2019
• The standard answer is that arm swing counteracts the angular momentum—that is, the body’s twisting back and forth—produced by the motion of the legs.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2022
• The reaction wheels can spin to absorb and counteract the angular momentum caused by the gas coming from the thruster.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2018
• If the atom were to start rotating, then something else has to provide the angular momentum.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
• This is a process that extracts energy and angular momentum from the black hole.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2016
• Earth’s spin would have been slowed in the process, with our planet being pushed slightly farther away from the sun to conserve angular momentum.
  — Simon J. Lock, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• In a study published in 2015 Pan and his colleagues managed to teleport two states of a photon: its spin and orbital angular momentum.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2019
• So arm swing isn’t the only way of balancing angular momentum, but it’s the simplest and most obvious one.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2022
• Finally, the angular momentum is too great for the star's gravity to attract the matter in any closer.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2017
• Think back to the vaguely familiar high school science terms of centripetal force and angular momentum.
  — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
• The puck rockets toward the goal as the player converts angular momentum (stick and torso swing) to linear momentum (the puck traveling a straight course for the goal).
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Feb. 2020
• Turntables would start turning faster when aligned with the universe’s motion, and angular momentum would not appear to be conserved.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 May 2017
• If the wave has no angular momentum and the turbine has no angular momentum, nothing will change.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
• As the two coalesce, the conservation of angular momentum—the tendency of things that spin to keep spinning in the same plane—dictates that the star that emerges from a merger spins very fast indeed.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 29 May 2019
• So far, stability has only been proved for slowly rotating black holes — where the ratio of the black hole’s angular momentum to its mass is much less than 1.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
• Concentrating more mass in a smaller space will force an object to speed up to preserve angular momentum.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• The first element a skater must control is angular momentum.
  — Allison Goldstein, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2022
• But the situation was much the same when light with orbital angular momentum was first produced more than a quarter century ago.
  — Adam Mann, National Geographic, 27 June 2019
• Once the bottle is set in motion, its angular momentum remains constant.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
• The ball’s initial position, its kinetic energy, its angular momentum – and all the other factors: the friction acting on the ball, the ricketiness of the table, the crookedness of the house.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
• His group found that most skaters had the necessary angular momentum leaving the ice, but sometimes had trouble getting enough rotational speed to complete the jump.
  — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
• The researchers made sure that gyroscopic torque of the wheels was negated by placing a matching set of wheels on the bike that spin backward, canceling the forward-spinning wheels' angular momentum.
  — John Matson, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2011
• Since the two rotors are spinning in opposite directions, the total angular momentum is zero and there is no need for torque from an extra tail rotor.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 16 May 2018
• That means that her angular momentum must remain constant.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 July 2021
• There are three properties of a black hole that are (in principle) measurable: their mass, their spin (or angular momentum) and their overall electronic charge.
  — Kevin Pimbblet, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024