Timeline for Can angular momentum be converted to translational momentum?
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| Dec 11, 2021 at 21:54 | history | edited | Wreckless | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2021 at 21:53 | comment | added | Wreckless | The you tube video is nothing other than a demo of slingshots. However, further reading shows that I have misunderstood this concept and my answer above is incorrect. | |
| Dec 11, 2021 at 14:50 | comment | added | anna v | see youtube.com/watch?v=FaQRNj0WpYU | |
| Dec 11, 2021 at 14:49 | comment | added | anna v | If the rope rotates its because the user provided by his momentum the impulse due to not stopping the rotational motion. Moemntum conservation goes -mv to the mv of the shot, but the person and the earth to which the user is attached are so massive that it easily takes up the momentum -mv. That -mv by definition has an angular momentum to the rotation center, and it is the negative of the one leaving. | |
| Dec 11, 2021 at 14:01 | comment | added | Wreckless | Please illustrate how that is true. The user will remain standing. and the sling 'rope' will temporarily continue rotating in the original direction. | |
| Dec 11, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | anna v | At the point the mass leaves in the tangential direction the conservation of momentum moves the sling and user . which go in the opposite direction and that reaction should also add up to conserve angular momentum | |
| Dec 11, 2021 at 13:00 | history | answered | Wreckless | CC BY-SA 4.0 |