Sentence examples for angular momentum from inspiring English sources
noun
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.
So that doesn't work with angular momentum!
These particles have some intrinsic angular momentum called spin.
Finally, nuclei may have angular momentum or spin.
For light atoms and heavier atoms with just a few electrons outside the inner closed shells, the total angular momentum is approximately given by the vector sum of the total of orbital angular momentum and the total spin angular momentum.
The Earth has orbital angular momentum by reason of its annual revolution about the Sun and spin angular momentum because of its daily rotation about its axis.
The magnetic moment of a particle is closely related to its angular momentum; if the angular momentum is zero, so is the magnetic moment.
In this scheme, each electron n is assigned an angular momentum j composed of its orbital angular momentum l and its spin s.
Elementary particles such as the electron and the proton also have a constant, intrinsic angular momentum in addition to the orbital angular momentum.
Goudsmit and Uhlenbeck postulated that an electron has an internal spinning motion and that the corresponding angular momentum is one-half of the orbital angular momentum quantum.
The absorbed or emitted photon has its own angular momentum, and the selection rules reflect the conservation of angular momentum between the atoms and the radiation.
This is because they carry angular momentum - spin - and also have electric charge.
