moment of momentum

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      6 words ...moment of momentum = angular momentum .

The Annual Cycle of the Axial Angular Momentum of the Atmosphere

Journal of Climate;  March 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ......analyses of the annual cycle of the axial angular momentum (AAM) are extended to include mass...transports as observed, and to establish angular momentum budgets for various control volumes...annual cycle of the zonally averaged angular momentum is large in the latitude belt 20...

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The Boston Globe;  September 12, 2000 ;     400 words ......holds a more subtle quantity called "angular momentum" as well. The angular momentum of a rotating object can be visualized...it makes them go straighter. The more angular momentum something has, the harder it is to change...

Spin Control

Natural History;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......mass. As long as Earth maintains its angular momentum around the Sun (the product of its...planet will stay serenely where it is. Angular momentum is the key to all things spinning...that (not counting friction) their angular momentum must stay the same. Thus, as their...

CO(2)-induced changes in atmospheric angular momentum in CMIP2 experiments

Journal of Climate;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The response of atmospheric angular momentum to a gradual doubling of CO2 is studied...Intercomparison Project (CMIP2). The relative angular momentum associated with atmospheric zonal...troposphere. The change in the omega angular momentum associated with the surface pressure...

Atmospheric Contributions to Earth Nutation: Geodetic Constraints and...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......atmosphere-induced nutation based on the torque and angular momentum approaches. In this note, angular momentum budgets computed from NCEP reanalysis...earth-atmosphere interface and so changes the angular momentum of both the atmosphere and solid earth...

Bohr theory

A Dictionary of Physics;      252 words ......a positively charged nucleus. The angular momentum of the electron would then be mvr...could only occupy orbits in which this angular momentum had certain fixed values, h /2π...Planck constant. This means that the angular momentum is quantized, i.e. can only have certain...

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R & D;  May 1, 2003 ;     299 words ......Chicago has successfully measured the angular momentum of light rings, which may lead scientists...vortices and was able to quantify its angular momentum. With optical vortices there is no...into optical vortices that can impart angular momentum to trapped objects, making them spin...

coupling

A Dictionary of Physics;      172 words ......called the Hund coupling cases) in which the different types of angular momentum in a molecule (the electron orbital angular momentum L , the electron spin angular momentum S , and the angular momentum of nuclear rotation N ) couple to...

Global warming could change day's length, scientist says

Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  February 17, 2001 ;     295 words ......One measure is the atmosphere's angular momentum, he said. "Westerlies and easterlies...by the mass of atmosphere, you get angular momentum." It changes on time scales from day-to...changes, he said. If the globe loses angular momentum from one day to the next, he said...

Covariance analysis of the global atmospheric axial angular momentum...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......budget equation for the global axial angular momentum M, the related covariance equations...to study the response of the global angular momentum to the forcing by mountain and friction...climatology of the atmosphere's axial angular momentum M and of the related orographic and...

A Stochastic Model for the Angular Momentum Budget of Latitude Belts

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of Weickmann et al. for the global angular momentum budget is modified to become applicable...is added for the flux divergence of angular momentum in a belt. The friction torque T^sub...be purely damping with respect to angular momentum M. The mountain torque T^sub o^ is...

Evolution of Low-Level Angular Momentum in the 2 June 1995 Dimmitt, Texas,...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......tornado and characterized by increasing angular momentum with increasing radius. Its life cycle...with somewhat differing evolution of angular momentum, herein called intensifying, transition...tornado. The azimuthally averaged angular momentum increased monotonically away from...

inertia matrix

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics;      5 words ...inertia matrix See angular momentum .

conservation of angular momentum

A Dictionary of Geography;      145 words ...conservation of angular momentum is a property of all moving...body taking a curved path is angular momentum, and is the product of the body...force acts to change a body's angular momentum, it will remain constant. This...