How to Use angular momentum in a Sentence
angular momentum
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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
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But things like angular momentum and the heat of friction fight against the pull of gravity.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
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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
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It might be described with just its mass, angular momentum and charge.
—Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2019
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It might be described with just its mass, angular momentum, and charge.
—Wired, 8 Sep. 2019
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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
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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
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If the atom were to start rotating, then something else has to provide the angular momentum.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
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This is a process that extracts energy and angular momentum from the black hole.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Think back to the vaguely familiar high school science terms of centripetal force and angular momentum.
—Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The first element a skater must control is angular momentum.
—Allison Goldstein, Popular Mechanics, 4 Feb. 2022
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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
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Once the bottle is set in motion, its angular momentum remains constant.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That means that her angular momentum must remain constant.
—Rhett Allain, Wired, 26 July 2021
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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
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Their approaches consider whether space and time might come in discrete little chunks, the same way that energy levels and angular momentum do.
—Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
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By the mid-1800s, the basic laws of motion had been established; it was assumed that the law of conservation of angular momentum meant that an object in free fall needed something to push against to give it initial rotation.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
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The angular momenta of the two turning parts of the cat's torso offset each other, resulting in an angular momentum of essentially zero.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2023
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