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Conservation of Angular Momentum
once something starts spinning, it will continue
unless acted on by an external influence
angular momentum: tendency to keep spinning
angular momentum depends on the mass
and on how that mass is spread out
Any time a body contracts (gets smaller),
it spins faster in order to conserve angular
momentum.
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