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  2. Angular mechanics - Wikipedia

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    A diagram of angular momentum. Showing angular velocity (Scalar) and radius. In physics, angular mechanics is a field of mechanics which studies rotational movement. It studies things such as angular momentum, angular velocity, and torque. It also studies more advanced things such as Coriolis force [1] and Angular aerodynamics.

  3. Angular momentum - Wikipedia

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    The angular momentum of m is proportional to the perpendicular component v ⊥ of the velocity, or equivalently, to the perpendicular distance r ⊥ from the origin. Angular momentum is a vector quantity (more precisely, a pseudovector) that represents the product of a body's rotational inertia and rotational velocity (in radians/sec) about a ...

  4. Balance of angular momentum - Wikipedia

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    The balance of angular momentum or Euler's second law in classical mechanics is a law of physics, stating that to alter the angular momentum of a body a torque must be applied to it. An example of use is the playground merry-go-round in the picture. To put it in rotation it must be pushed.

  5. Kinematics - Wikipedia

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    Angular position: the oriented distance from a selected origin on the rotational axis to a point of an object is a vector r(t) locating the point. The vector r ( t ) has some projection (or, equivalently, some component) r ⊥ ( t ) on a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation.

  6. Euler's equations (rigid body dynamics) - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics, Euler's rotation equations are a vectorial quasilinear first-order ordinary differential equation describing the rotation of a rigid body, using a rotating reference frame with angular velocity ω whose axes are fixed to the body.

  7. Tensor operator - Wikipedia

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    A special class of these are spherical tensor operators which apply the notion of the spherical basis and spherical harmonics. The spherical basis closely relates to the description of angular momentum in quantum mechanics and spherical harmonic functions.

  8. Rigid body - Wikipedia

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    the angular position (also known as orientation, or attitude) of the body. Thus, the position of a rigid body has two components: linear and angular, respectively. [3] The same is true for other kinematic and kinetic quantities describing the motion of a rigid body, such as linear and angular velocity, acceleration, momentum, impulse, and ...

  9. Three-body problem - Wikipedia

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    A quantum-mechanical analogue of the gravitational three-body problem in classical mechanics is the helium atom, in which a helium nucleus and two electrons interact according to the inverse-square Coulomb interaction. Like the gravitational three-body problem, the helium atom cannot be solved exactly.