Explain about Torque, rotational dynamics, and angular momentum.

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Explain about Torque, rotational dynamics, and angular momentum.

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Dynamics: The branch of physics which involves the study of cause of a motion or and their effect on that motion.

Rotational Dynamics: When the cause of motion involves terms such as Torque or angular momentum, it is studied under Rotational Dynamics. It is analogous to the dynamics in translational motion. The quantities in rotational motion are mentioned with their translational analogue below,

  • Inertia (Mass)
  • Angular momentum (Momentum )
  • Torque (Force)
  • Translational Kinetic energy (Rotational Kinetic Energy)
  • Angular acceleration (Acceleration)

Under this branch we study the rotational motion of various systems like,

  • Motion of planets around the sun
  • Spinning top
  • Motion of wheels and gears.
  • Spinning of dancing ice skaters.
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Angular Momentum: It is the rotational analogue of the quantity momentum in the translational motion. It is defined as the product of moment of inertia of a rotating body about a fixed axis and its angular velocity. It is a conserved quantity for system isolated to external torque. It can be expressed as,

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Where I is the moment of inertia of a rotating body about its axis and ω is the angular velocity.

Example: When a ice skaters spin with hands and legs streched away from the body, takes its hands and legs closer to the rotating axis(body) its moment of inertia lowers and hence angular velocity increase to conserve the total angular momentum. Since there was no external torque acting on the skater.  

It is the amount of motion a body have in rotating states such as spinning and orbiting. Hence a body can have two type of momentum while rotational motion,

  1. Orbital angular momentum
  2. Spin angular momentum

The total angular momentum of a body is the sum of the spin angular momentum and the orbital angular momentum of a body.

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