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To: Havoc
Do some frickin' research.

Conservation of Angular Momentum

The angular momentum of an isolated system remains constant in both magnitude and direction. The angular momentum is defined as the product of the moment of inertia I and the angular velocity. The angular momentum is a vector quantity and the vector sum of the angular momenta of the parts of an isolated system is constant. This puts a strong constraint on the types of rotational motions which can occur in an isolated system. If one part of the system is given an angular momentum in a given direction, then some other part or parts of the system must simultaneously be given exactly the same angular momentum in the opposite direction. As far as we can tell, conservation of angular momentum is an absolute symmetry of nature. That is, we do not know of anything in nature that violates it.

Please note: The above does not say everything has to be spinning in the same direction. It says that any change in the rotation of an object within a system must be accompanied by a change in the rotation of another object in that system.

Your pissant version of the Conservation of Angular Momentum can be shot down simply by looking at some of the retrograde moons in the Solar System.

445 posted on 12/20/2004 11:09:38 AM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: Junior
The angular momentum of an isolated system remains constant in both magnitude and direction.

This would include an insignificant speck of nothing spinning and exploding into everything.

It says that any change in the rotation of an object within a system must be accompanied by a change in the rotation of another object in that system.

So you can read but you've no idea what it actually says - essentially. Take up billiards.

453 posted on 12/20/2004 11:16:06 AM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade.)
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