Stick rotation?

[ggiese]

Well if your angle is greater than zero but less than one, then angular momentum and linear momentum could become the same thing.


Kris

Ooohh... I dunno Kris. A popular misconception.

I know it's rhetorical, but formally the angular momentum of a point object is defined as the cross product of the object's position vector (a measure of an object's resistance to changes in its rotation rate) and the linear momentum vector. By that definition, angular momentum cannot possibly be the same as linear momentum.