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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - University Physics Volume 1 - Angular Momentum. | Oct 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Washington Libraries - Physics Across Oceanography: Fluid Mechanics and Waves - Angular momentum on a rotating planet. | Jan 10, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Chapman University Digital Commons - Angular Momentum Flow Without Anything Carrying It (PDF). | Nov 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Physics LibreTexts - Angular Momentum. | Oct 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Angular momentum and rotational energy of mean flows in toroidal magnetic fields (PDF). | Aug 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mustansiriyah University - Angular Momentum (PDF). | Jul 16, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - An Angular Momentum Synthesis of ?Gravitational? and ?Electrostatic? Forces (PDF). | Mar 29, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Edinburgh - Angular momentum (PDF). | Jan 17, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Western University - Department of Physics and Astronomy - Angular Momentum and Spin. | Oct 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: MIT OpenCourseWare - Angular Momentum. | Aug 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lehman College - Angular Momentum. | Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Hawaiʻi Pressbooks - Angular Momentum and Its Conservation. | Oct 20, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Khan Academy - Angular momentum. | Sep 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Central Florida Pressbooks - General Physics Using Calculus I - Angular Momentum. | May 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: OpenStax - University Physics Volume 1 - Angular Momentum. | Sep 16, 2022 | ||
| Added material about when the direction of the angular-momentum vector is aligned with a body's axis of rotation. | Jan 14, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Sep 21, 2018 | ||
| Added video describing angular momentum. | Nov 18, 2015 | ||
| Added new Web site: HyperPhysics - Angular Momentum. | Nov 25, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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