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captainjack2000
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Homework Statement
I am trying to write a short speech about angular momentum - aimed at kids leaving school and going on to university. I have started with a brief description of linear momentum, definition of vector, and them the fact that linear momentum is analogous to angular momentum and linear velocity is the counterpart of angular velocity. I then say that an object does not need to be rotating about an origin to have angular momentum. Is this right. Does it just have to been moving at a changing angle wrt to a point? If I then say L=m(rxv) is that the best way to explain angular momentum?
HELP