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Change in Angular Velocity While Orbiting With No Torque
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[QUOTE="haruspex, post: 6833429, member: 334404"] Good point, but there is a difference between being violated and ceasing to be meaningful. The difference from F=ma is that for a flexible body we can apply that to the motion of the mass centre. There is no rotational equivalent (that I can think of) to a mass centre. To make ##\tau = I \alpha## meaningful in the non-rigid context we have to replace ## I \alpha## with ##\Sigma m_ir_i^2\alpha_i## or define ##\alpha## as ##\frac{\Sigma m_ir_i^2\alpha_i}{\Sigma m_ir_i^2}##. [/QUOTE]
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