Orbital angular momentum | physics | Britannica (original) (raw)

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calculation

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  In spectroscopy: Total orbital angular momentum and total spin angular momentum
  …quantum numbers giving the total orbital angular momentum and total spin angular momentum of a given state. The total orbital angular momentum is the sum of the orbital angular momenta from each of the electrons; it has magnitude Square root of√L(L + 1) (ℏ), in which L is an integer. The possible…
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dynamics of rigid bodies

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  In mechanics: Rotation about a moving axis
  … × p is called the orbital angular momentum. Any change in the angular momentum of the body is given by the torque equation,
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