Chapter 12: Angular Impulse and Angular Momentum
In Ch. 8 we have introduced the principle of impulse and momentum and the law of momentum conservation that hold for systems of point masses and for rigid bodies. However, these laws do not provide information on the rotations, or changes in the angular velocity of rigid bodies. In this chapter we will extend these concepts to rotation of rigid bodies, thus providing a method to analyse both the changes in velocity of the CoM and the changes in the angular velocity \(\overrightarrow{\boldsymbol{\omega}}\), when external forces and moments act on rigid bodies.