Examples of conservation of angular momentum

1. The circus acrobat leaves the swing with his arms and legs extended, with a certain angular velocity about a horizontal axis passing through his centre of mass to enable him to spin around the axis. When he brings his arms and legs closer to his body, moment of inertia (I decreases. To !eep his angular momentum constant (angular momentum " # I $ his angular velocity increase and he starts spinning faster.

2. % s!ater starts turning with her arms extended and then pulls them in closer (decreasing moment of inertia to her sides due to which she spins faster ( ma!ing her angular velocity increase

%long with this her rotational !inetic energy also increases, thereby increasing her energy and hence ability to do wor!. &. %s diver pushes himself slightly forward he ac'uires a small angular velocity. (nce in air, no external tor'ue acts on the body to change her angular momentum.

When he pulls in her body, moment of inertia decreases to increase his angular velocity which enables him to complete his summersault. While entering into the water again he stretches his body to reduce the angular velocity. ). % man standing on a platform which can rotate about the z * axis. +e holds a rotating wheel in his hand where axis of wheel is along ,-axis. .omponent about the z- axis is zero. If the wheel is turned so that its axis is parallel to the z * axis, the man must rotate in a direction opposite to wheel/s rotation in order that the angular momentum about the z-axis remains zero.

0. % spinning rugby ball is thrown in such a way that it gains spin about its long axis. 1ince external forces during its 2ourney in air are constant, angular moment is constant. Tor'ue is also zero and hence its direction does not very and can not travel end over end.

3. +elicopter with single propeller rotates in the opposite direction of the rotor to conserve the angular momentum. +owever if it has two propellers then one is at its tail. %s the helicopter starts, its body has tendency to rotate. To counter balanced it, the propeller rotates in the opposite direction.

4. The angular velocity of air in a tornado goes on increasing as we move towards its centre. It is on account of the fact that as the air moves towards the centre, its moment of inertia decreases and hence to maintain its angular momentum, its angular velocity increases.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------555 6'uilibrium (of force, energy, potential, angular momentum, moment of inertia of a body at a point means the sum of all (vectors (i.e force, energy, potential, angular momentum, moment of inertia is ZERO. If a body has three forces acting on a point then summation of all three forces is e'ual to zero. -----------------------------------------------------------------------If 7% 8 1 then distance over which effort is applied becomes greater than the distance over which the load is moved. 555 7echanical advantage is the factor by which a machine multiplies the force put into it. The mechanical advantage can be calculated for the simple machines by using the following formulas9 1imple machine - "ever9 MA = length of effort arm length of resistance arm.