Central Forces 2023
Students learn how to express Angular Momentum as a vector quantity in polar coordinates, and then in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates
What students learn
- How to understand general expression for velocity and angular momentum
- Refreshes relevant ideas like positions vectors, cross products, and curvilinear coordinate systems from Static Fields Paradigm
Find an expression for angular momentum in polar coordinates.
- Keywords
- Angular momentum velocity polar coordinates curvilinear coordinates vectors cross product spherical coordinates cylindrical coordinates
- Learning Outcomes
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- ph426: 1) Explain the consequences of energy and angular momentum conservation in a system of interacting particles.