Rankers Physics
Topic: Rotational Motion
Subtopic: Angular Momentum and Conservation of Angular Momentum

A conical pendulum consists of a simple pendulum moving in a horizontal circle as shown. C is the pivot, O the centre of the circle in which the pendulum bob moves and ω the constant angular velocity of the bob. If L is the angular momentum about point C, then Image related to
L is constant ( magnitude as well as direction is constant )
Only direction of L is constant
Only magnitude of L is constant
None of the above.

Solution:

As object is in circular motion angular momentum

\[ \vec L=I\vec\omega \]

Direction of omega is along the axis so, L will have direction along axis OC. So both magnitude

and direction of angular momentum L is constant.

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