angular momentum

English

Noun

angular momentum (plural angular momenta)

(physics) The vector product that describes the rotary inertia of a system about an axis and is conserved in a closed system. For an isolated rigid body, it is a measure of the extent to which an object will continue to rotate in the absence of an applied torque.

Translations

angular momentum

Armenian: իմպուլսի մոմենտ (impulsi moment)
Czech: moment hybnosti (cs) m
Danish: impulsmoment n
Dutch: impulsmoment (nl)
Finnish: pyörimismäärä, liikemäärämomentti, impulssimomentti
French: moment angulaire (fr) m
German: Drehimpuls (de) m

Hungarian: impulzusmomentum, impulzusnyomaték
Italian: momento angolare (it) m
Portuguese: momento angular m
Romanian: moment cinetic (ro) n, impuls unghiular n, moment unghiular n
Russian: моме́нт и́мпульса (ru) m (momént ímpulʹsa)
Serbo-Croatian: ugaoni moment m
Slovene: kotni moment m

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