: What is angular velocity?

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: What is angular velocity?

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**Regular velocity is the rate at which something is moving**. 15 meters per second, 10 miles per hour, that sort of thing.

***Angular*** **velocity is the rate at which something is spinning**. A more intuitive name would be “rotational velocity”, but we use “angular” because then you can say something is rotating through an *angle* of 60 degrees every second or something like that. But you can also give an angular velocity in units like revolutions per minute (RPM), turns per second (Hertz), etc.