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frankhawes
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Hello everyone!
I'm going to uni in October and I'm brushing up on my mechanics before I go.
I've just got to a bit that has confused me before and has confused me again now:
When you have a rotating object, say it is rotating in front of you in a vertical plane and it is rotating anti-clockwise then I think I'm correct in saying that the direction of the angular momentum would be towards you.
I don't understand this, as far as I am aware there is nothing physical coming towards me...
Is this is just convention? If it is then why has the convention arisen, I can't see the convenience in arbitrarily giving the angular momentum a direction.
Please can someone help me :)
Thanks in advance,
Frank
I'm going to uni in October and I'm brushing up on my mechanics before I go.
I've just got to a bit that has confused me before and has confused me again now:
When you have a rotating object, say it is rotating in front of you in a vertical plane and it is rotating anti-clockwise then I think I'm correct in saying that the direction of the angular momentum would be towards you.
I don't understand this, as far as I am aware there is nothing physical coming towards me...
Is this is just convention? If it is then why has the convention arisen, I can't see the convenience in arbitrarily giving the angular momentum a direction.
Please can someone help me :)
Thanks in advance,
Frank