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Conservation of Angular Momentum

Consider an element of fluid tex2html_wrap_inline2239 , tex2html_wrap_inline2241 , 1 is rotating about the z axis with tex2html_wrap_inline2243 , then the balance of angular mometum can be written as

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As tex2html_wrap_inline2245

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then

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or

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Stresses at a point are symmetric, tex2html_wrap_inline2247 has six unkowns.


Yousef Haik
Sun Sep 1 16:31:13 EDT 1996