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Conservation Laws

What is the conservation of angular momentum?

by David Colarusso - March 11th, 2007

What do bicycle wheels, figure skaters, and exploding stars have in common? That’s right, angular momentum. This video quotes three others: Rotating Person and Bicycle Wheel, Skating: Scratch Spin, and Exploding Neutron Star.