A tag for questions about rotational motion, including angular velocity and angular acceleration.

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Internal/Rotational angular momentum

I have some difficulties to understand the relation between the internal and the rotational angular momentum of a rigid body which is also known as König's theorem, so what physical intuition lies ...
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Rotation of Spacetime => Change in orbit/path

Along the idea of frame-dragging; Will the rotation of a black hole, which has some velocity v and angular momentum, influence its path in 3D space? I've seen the fact that depending on the ...
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Calculate Rotational Intertia

If a can of soup, and a can of beans (tightly packed), are set in a race down a rough hill (has friction), the soup wins, because the inside of the can (soup) is not drawing energy from the system. ...
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Energies decay in 3D homogeneous rotating turbulence

In three-dimensional rotating homogeneous turbulence governed by the hyper-viscous Navier-Stokes equation with an additional Coriolis force in a three-periodic setup: \begin{equation} ...