Skip to main content
Physics

Return to Answer

replaced http://space.stackexchange.com/ with https://space.stackexchange.com/
Source Link
Community Bot
Community Bot
  • 1

Internal constituents can affect the angular velocity of the system. HereHere is an example. So the answer is yes. If you are in a space probe spinning along some axis, then turning on a tape recoder or an HDD aligned with the axis can slow down the spin of the space probe. The total angular momentum is still conserved.

Internal constituents can affect the angular velocity of the system. Here is an example. So the answer is yes. If you are in a space probe spinning along some axis, then turning on a tape recoder or an HDD aligned with the axis can slow down the spin of the space probe. The total angular momentum is still conserved.

Internal constituents can affect the angular velocity of the system. Here is an example. So the answer is yes. If you are in a space probe spinning along some axis, then turning on a tape recoder or an HDD aligned with the axis can slow down the spin of the space probe. The total angular momentum is still conserved.

Source Link
biryani
biryani
  • 1.3k
  • 1
  • 9
  • 26

Internal constituents can affect the angular velocity of the system. Here is an example. So the answer is yes. If you are in a space probe spinning along some axis, then turning on a tape recoder or an HDD aligned with the axis can slow down the spin of the space probe. The total angular momentum is still conserved.