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ANGULAR MOMENTUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does angular momentum mean?
• ANGULAR MOMENTUM (noun)
The noun ANGULAR MOMENTUM has 1 sense:
1. the product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation
Familiarity information: ANGULAR MOMENTUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The product of the momentum of a rotating body and its distance from the axis of rotation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
angular momentum makes the world go round
Hypernyms ("angular momentum" is a kind of...):
momentum (the product of a body's mass and its velocity)
Context examples
‘Spin’ is the term for the intrinsic angular momentum of electrons, which is referred to as up or down.
(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)
Instead of superconducting loops, the quantum information in the quantum computer Lepage and his colleagues are devising use the ‘spin’ of an electron – its inherent angular momentum, which can be up or down – to store quantum information.
(Quantum state of single electrons controlled by ‘surfing’ on sound waves, University of Cambridge)
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