tomwilliam2
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I've been reading a book that talks about the angular momentum of an extended body around a point 0 (H_0) being made up of the moment-of-momentum of an equivalent particle (representing the total mass at the centre of mass) with respect to the point 0 and the angular momentum around the centre of mass, C:
##\mathbf{H}_0 = M\mathbf{h}_0 + \mathbf{H}_C##
I've never seen this second term on the RHS before. Is it basically saying that there is the angular momentum of the e.p. with respect to the origin, but then there's also the angular momentum of the individual particles in the extended body around the centre of mass?
##\mathbf{H}_0 = M\mathbf{h}_0 + \mathbf{H}_C##
I've never seen this second term on the RHS before. Is it basically saying that there is the angular momentum of the e.p. with respect to the origin, but then there's also the angular momentum of the individual particles in the extended body around the centre of mass?
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