NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Orbital angular momentum vector

In astrodynamics Orbital angular momentum vector is a vector perpendicular to the orbital plane that is used in calculations of orbital parameters from orbital state vectors.

Orbital angular momentum vector is defined as:

where:

is orbiting body's position vector,
is orbiting body's velocity vector.

Angular momentum coupling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1244 words)
	The angular momentum coupling terms are the terms of the total Hamiltonian which do not commute with the subsystem individual angular momenta (or are not invariant with respect to the rotations of the subsystems).
	The behavior of atoms and smaller particles is well described by the theory of quantum mechanics, in which each particle has an intrinsic angular momentum (or spin) and specific configurations of, e.g.
	Angular momentum coupling is a category including some of the ways that subatomic particles can interact with each other.

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