Conserved?

True or False?

If the linear momentum on an object is conserved. Then the angular momentum about a point is also conserved.

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Md Zuhair
Sep 1, 2016

When Linear Momentum is conserved then, p = c o n s t a n t p=constant or d p / d t = 0 dp/dt =0 , hence F e x t F_{ext} =0.

Now F e x t F_{ext} =0 then Whatever be the axis of rotation , T e x t T_{ext} =0. or d J / d t = 0 dJ /dt = 0 or J = c o n s t a n t J = constant

Abhishek Sinha
Sep 2, 2016

Let p ( t ) \vec{p}(t) and L ( t ) \vec{L}(t) respectively be the linear and angular momentums of the particle of mass m m . Given, d p ( t ) d t = 0 \frac{d\vec{p}(t)}{dt}=\vec{0} Now we know that L ( t ) = r ( t ) × p ( t ) \vec{L}(t)= \vec{r(t)} \times \vec{p}(t) , where r ( t ) \vec{r}(t) is the position-vector of the particle with respect to any fixed point and × '\times' denotes the vector cross-product operation. Then, using product rule for vector differentiation we have: d L ( t ) d t = r ( t ) × d p ( t ) d t + d r ( t ) d t × p ( t ) = r ( t ) × 0 + 1 m p ( t ) × p ( t ) = ( a ) 0 , \frac{d\vec{L}(t)}{dt}= \vec{r}(t) \times \frac{d\vec{p}(t)}{dt}+ \frac{d\vec{r}(t)}{dt} \times \vec{p}(t)=\vec{r}(t) \times\vec{0}+\frac{1}{m} \vec{p}(t) \times \vec{p}(t) \stackrel{(a)}{=} \vec{0}, where in (a) we have used the fact that the cross product of two parallel vectors is zero.

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