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To: Physicist
you cannot make angular velocity disappear.

But you just did. "The motion on the one side cancels the motion on the other side."

5,268 posted on 01/16/2003 4:36:38 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
But you just did. "The motion on the one side cancels the motion on the other side."

Angular velocity is the angle swept out per unit time, rather than a distance per unit time. It does not cancel, as both "sides" of the object are travelling the the same angular direction, even as they travel in opposite rectilinear directions.

5,270 posted on 01/16/2003 4:59:57 PM PST by Physicist
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