Velocity the angular speed formula_27 and the magnitude of the displacement. such that Angular momentum in scalar form is the mass times the distance to the origin times the transverse velocity, or equivalently, the mass times the distance squared times the angular speed. The sign convention for angular momentum is the same as that for angular velocity. where The expression formula_33 is known as moment of inertia. If forces are in the radial direction only with an inverse square dependence, as in the case of a gravitational orbit, angular momentum is constant, and transverse speed is inversely proportional to the distance,
Angular velocity Lie algebra of the Lie group of rotations of an "n"-dimensional inner product space. In three dimensions, angular velocity can be represented by a pseudovector because second rank tensors are dual to pseudovectors in three dimensions. Since the angular velocity tensor "W" = "W"("t") is a skew-symmetric matrix: its Hodge dual is a vector, which is precisely the previous angular velocity vector formula_60. If we know an initial frame "A"(0) and we are given a "constant" angular velocity tensor "W", we can obtain "A"("t") for any given "t". Recall the matrix differential equation: This equation can be integrated to give: