: What is angular velocity?
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Angular velocity is the rate at which something turns around a central point.
Imagine a baseball batter swinging their bat. Their body becomes the central point, or axis, and the bat has an angular velocity that describes how quickly it is rotating around the player’s body.
If they swing the bat faster, it has a higher angular velocity.
The angular velocity is measured in radians or degrees / time. So you could have something with an angular velocity of 360 degrees/minute meaning it makes one full rotation and ends up back where it started every minute.
(It can also be measured in revolutions/time, like RPM with an engine)
I was curious about my own example, so I looked it up. Apparently a baseball bat swing is something like 2000°/sec.
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