Uncertainty principle for angular momentum and angular position

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Verify that the uncertainty principle can be expressed in the form
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, where
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is the uncertainty in the angular momentum of a particle, and
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is the uncertainty in its angular position. (You may think of a particle, mass m, moving in a circle of fixed radius r, with speed v)

b) At what uncertainty in L will the angular position of a particle become completely indeterminate?
 
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Once you have answered part (b), you will see that the relation that you're supposed to prove in part (a) cannot be quite correct!