Section 3.

5 Angular Momentum for Several Particles

• Consider system of N particles:
• Each particle angular momentum:
• Total angular momentum
• (3.20)
• Differentiate (3.20) with respect to
• (net torque) (3.21)
• is net force on particle includes internal and
external forces
• (3.22)
• Substitute (3.22) into (3.21)
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• (3.23)
• 1st term: internal torque
• Consist action-pair forces
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• (3.25)
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• Since lies opposite to
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• The internal torque is zero
• 2nd term: external torque

• Returning to (3.23)
• (3.26)
• Rate of change of angular momentum in N-particle solely
depends on external torque
• For
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Angular Momentum for Rigid Body
• For rigid body rotating around fixed axis O
• Specfically for axis of rotation on z-axis
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• Also
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• :moment of inertia
• : angular velocity