Thursday 14 December 2017

Doesn't Conservation of angular momentum contradict the need for a centripetal force?


If an object is rotating in space, then there has to be a centripetal force acting upon it to constantly change its direction. I thought if an object begins to rotate in space, it would slow down since there is no centripetal force that keeps it changing direction, but that is contradictory to the conservation of angular momentum law.




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