This incident was not unique. Fatalities from welding and hot work are often are associated with confined spaces and the areas adjacent to these confined spaces . The CSB has identified over 60 fatalities since 1990 due to explosions and fires from hot work activities on tanks, which are, of course, confined spaces.
moâ¢menâ¢tum. 1. force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object or course of events: a career that lost momentum. 2. Mech. a quantity expressing the motion of a body or system, equal to the product of the mass of a body and its velocity.
the definition of angular momentum for a point particle is a pseudovector r p the cross product of the particle s position vector r relative to some origin and its momentum vector p mv this definition can be applied to each point in continua like solids or fluids or physical fields