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**Donutz** · 02-10-2011, 06:43 PM

Bringing your body parts in closer to the centre of rotation is like a skater pulling in their arms to spin faster. Total angular momentum stays the same. If you don't have any initial rotation, then total angular momentum will remain zero.

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Donutz Drunk with power...er beer. Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 3,702 Blog Entries: 177	Bringing your body parts in closer to the centre of rotation is like a skater pulling in their arms to spin faster. Total angular momentum stays the same. If you don't have any initial rotation, then total angular momentum will remain zero. __________________ Illegitimi non carborundum I hate the parts between winter...