Researchers at Tampere University and their collaborators from Germany and India have experimentally confirmed that angular momentum is conserved when a single photon is converted into a ...

In a closed physical system, the sum of all angular momentum remains constant -- says an important physical law of conservation. Angular momentum does not necessarily need to involve "real" bodily ...

That's where the phrase “conservation of angular momentum” comes from. The classic example of this is a spinning ice skater or someone spinning in an office chair.

But the conservation of angular momentum says that when rotating mass is closer to the center, then the object must spin faster. Wow. I'd give that a 10. - [Voice] Stem Challenge!

Here is a quick demo I made to show this conservation of angular momentum. It's not the best demo, but I put it together rather quickly. Let's see how this works.

In physics, we call this conservation of angular momentum. Just as an example, here is this same maneuver performed on a rotating platform instead of on ice. Gif: Rhett Allain.

Conservation of angular momentum. The Principle: This can be a tough topic to tackle, so let's start with a few definitions. First we have momentum.