Orbital Velocity
Rich Galen Wednesday, October 20, 2004
- "... Angular Momentum ...": From Wikipedia.com:
"For many applications where one is only concerned about rotation around one axis, it is sufficient to discard the vector nature of angular momentum, and treat it like a scalar where it is positive when it corresponds to a counter-clockwise rotations, and negative clockwise. "To do this, just take the definition of the cross product and discard the unit vector, so that angular momentum becomes:"
See? What'd I tell ya?
- "... NY Times Poll ...": Here's a link to the NY Times poll released yesterday.
- Mullfoto of the Day
Shoo!
- Catchy Caption of the Day
How are those Botox shots working out for you, Senator?
(REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
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