| | The Biomechanics of Skating: Conservation of Angular Momentum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | For example, it is important to understand the concepts of force, angular displacement, angular velocity, and momentum to fully comprehend the analysis of the figure skating jumps and spins. |
 | | The objectives of this unit is to use example from figure skating to become familiar with the concept of conservation of angular momentum, to be able to solve basic angular momentum problems, and to learn great examples from figure skating for teaching the conservation of angular momentum to your students. |
 | | Conservation of angular momentum is the principle that the angular momentum of an object remains constant as long as no external torque, or moment, acts on that object. |
| btc.montana.edu /olympics/physbio/biomechanics/cam-intro.html (343 words) |