Sentences with phrase «total angular momentum»

The smaller clumps each got their own share of the original total angular momentum, continuing down in scale so that everything today has some spin.

If you don't understand that the total angular momentum of a gas cloud is an aggregate quantity, but in fact there are local variations which can give rise to counter-spinning moons, and that in any case gravitational interactions between objects can produce retro - grade orbits then how in heavens name can you pretend to understand something as complex as evolution.

This adds to the individual spins to give a «total angular momentum».

Next, Alice measures the total angular momentum, or spin, of the black hole — both its magnitude and, roughly speaking, how much it lines up with a particular axis.

In the supernova explosions that precede the formation of black holes, some of the mass of the star is blown off, carrying away part of the total angular momentum of the star.

This acceleration enables the universe to conserve its total angular momentum; as matter falls in closer to the spin axis, it must increase in speed.

The conservation of angular momentum is a law of physics that states the total angular momentum of a rotating object with no outside force remains constant regardless of changes within the system.

An example of this principle occurs when a skater pulls his or her arms inward during a spin (changing the mass distribution to one nearer the rotation axis, reducing the «moment of inertia,» and speeds up (increasing the skater's spin); because the moment of inertia goes down, the spin rate must increase to keep the total angular momentum of the system unchanged.