How to Use angular momentum in a Sentence

angular momentum

noun
  • It might be described with just its mass, angular momentum and charge.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2019
  • It might be described with just its mass, angular momentum, and charge.
    — Wired, 8 Sep. 2019
  • To conserve angular momentum, the moon speeds up a teensy tiny amount, and thus moves away from us.
    — Popsci Staff, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But things like angular momentum and the heat of friction fight against the pull of gravity.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2018
  • This is a process that extracts energy and angular momentum from the black hole.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 July 2016
  • The one with the steeper rise has a higher orbital angular momentum.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2017
  • If the atom were to start rotating, then something else has to provide the angular momentum.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Think back to the vaguely familiar high school science terms of centripetal force and angular momentum.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Once the bottle is set in motion, its angular momentum remains constant.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Concentrating more mass in a smaller space will force an object to speed up to preserve angular momentum.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
  • What the researchers were able to do here was to give the plasmons an orbital angular momentum, just like photons in free space have, and watch its motion.
    — Dexter Johnson, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Mar. 2017
  • If the wave has no angular momentum and the turbine has no angular momentum, nothing will change.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Today, Agosta uses that same wheel to teach his students about angular momentum.
    — Briana Alvarado, ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This increase is due to a principle called the conservation of angular momentum.
    — Evelyn Lamb, Smithsonian, 7 Feb. 2018
  • In the quantum world, this can only happen if electrons or photons carry away or deliver some angular momentum.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The wave function of the particle could also expand into the right-hand side of the setup and thus influence the angular momentum of the wall.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Particles such as electrons have a kind of intrinsic angular momentum called spin, for instance, and terms capturing the effects of spin go up top.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • If the animal rotates like a pepper mill in two different directions, the change in angular momentum is zero.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 24 July 2023
  • The opposite happens when the spacecraft passes behind the bigger object to gain some angular momentum.
    — Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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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