Consider an inertial frame in which a free particle travels past the origin O but not through it. Show by direct calculation that the particle's angular momentum about O is constant.
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Step 1: The angular momentum of a particle about a point O is given by: $$L = r \times p$$ where r is the position vector of the particle relative to O and p is the linear momentum of the particle. Show more…
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