If a particle is subject to no torque then the angular momentum is conserved
The angular momentum,
of a particle with position vector,
, and total linear momentum,
is given by
. If some force,
, acts on that particles, then the torque is defined similarily as
.
Taking the time derivative of the angular momentum equation,
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But, given an arbitrary vector,
Writing the above simplistically as
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