A person at rest is standing on a low-friction platform or chair and holding a spinning wheel. If the person tilts the wheel, she or he will start rotating according to the law of conservation of ...

It's almost always the last topic in the first semester of introductory physics—angular momentum. Best for last, or something? I've used this concept to describe everything from fidget spinners to ...

This course introduces the quantum mechanical concept of angular momentum operator and its relationship with rotation operator. It then presents the angular momentum operators, their eigenvalues and ...