| ANGULAR MOMENTUM was founded 1999
in Bern, the Capital of Switzerland.
AM is said to be one of the coming up and trend setting Swiss
watch brands.
„A Spectacular and Sensational New and Easy Way of Reading
the Time“
Basel Fair 1999. The first Watch Collection „THE PIONEERS“
was launched.
The USP of this Collection was the Swiss Patent CH 686 988 B5, the
Revolving-Disk-System® (RDS). This technology shows the Time
on a Wrist Watch in a different Way. The minutes are shown by conventional
minute hand and the hours are shown by a hour disk in the diameter
of the dial, replacing the dial and hour hand.
„Angular
Illuminates the Special Momentum“
At Basel Fair 2000, the first three Models and the Steel Bracelet
of the new Sports & Design Watch Collection Illum where presented
to Visitors and International Press.
Illum/I Gents Sports Watch, Illum/II Diving Watch and Illum/III
Ladies Sports Watch.
At Basel Fair 2001, the three following Models of the Illum Collection
where presented:
Illum/IV Mid Size Sports Watch, Illum/V GMT Worldtimer Watch and
Illum/VI Chronograph.
The main features beside of the high quality expected in the Swiss
watch industry are the unique design of the watches, the R.D.S.S.
Technology, a refined version of the patented R.D.S and finely the
special use of the organic luminous hi-tech substance Super-LumiNova©.
ANGULAR MOMENTUM has recently opened its show room in the heard
of down town Bern at Münstergasse 20.
Meaning of ANGULAR MOMENTUM
„The Theory for the Origin of the Solar System is a very old
one with some modern Innovations called the Nebular Hypothesis.
A crucial Ingredient in the Nebular Hypothesis is the Conservation
of ANGULAR MOMENTUM.“
ANGULAR MOMENTUM is a concept taken from astrophysics that derives
from the combination of a moment of inertia with an angular velocity.
The term dates back to the German astronomer and physicist JOHANNES
KEPLER (*1571), THE PIONEER in this field. Property characterising
the rotary inertia of an object or system of objects in motion about
an AXIS that may or may not pass through the object or system.
The Earth has orbital ANGULAR MOMENTUM by reason of its annual revolution
about the Sun and spin ANGULAR MOMENTUM because of its daily rotation
about its AXIS.
ANGULAR MOMENTUM is a vector quantity, requiring the specification
of both a magnitude and a direction for its complete description.
The magnitude of the ANGULAR MOMENTUM of an orbiting object is equal
to its linear momentum (product of its mass m and linear velocity
v) times the perpendicular distance r from the centre of rotation
to a line drawn in the direction of its instantaneous motion and
passing through the object's centre of gravity, or simply mvr.
For a spinning object, on the other hand, the ANGULAR MOMENTUM must
be considered as the summation of the quantity mvr for all the particles
composing the object.
ANGULAR MOMENTUM may be formulated equivalently as the product of
I, the moment of inertia, and , the angular velocity, of a rotating
body or system, or simply I.
The direction of the ANGULAR MOMENTUM vector is that of the AXIS
of rotation of the given object and is designated as positive in
the direction that a watch-hand or a REVOLVING DISK screws would
advance if turned similarly. Appropriate MKS or SI units for ANGULAR
MOMENTUM are kilogram metres squared per second (kg-m2/sec).For
a given object or system isolated from external forces, the total
ANGULAR MOMENTUM is a constant, a fact that is known as the law
of conservation of ANGULAR MOMENTUM.
A rigid spinning object, for example, continues to spin at a constant
rate and with a fixed orientation unless influenced by the application
of an external TORQUE.
(The rate of change of the ANGULAR MOMENTUM is, in fact, equal to
the applied torque.)
A figure skater spins faster, or has a greater angular velocity
, when the arms are drawn inward, because this action reduces the
MOMENT OF INERTIA I while the product I, the skater's ANGULAR MOMENTUM,
remains constant. Because of the conservation of direction as well
as magnitude, a spinning gyrocompass in an aeroplane remains fixed
in its orientation, independent of the motion of the aeroplane.
For the extension of the conception of orbital and spin ANGULAR
MOMENTUM to analogous properties of subatomic particles such as
electrons.
The AXIS of rotation is inclined to the orbital plane at an angle
of 24.935¼, and, as for the Earth, the tilt gives rise to seasons
on Mars. The Martian year consists of 668.6 Martian solar days (called
sols).
The orientation and eccentricity of the orbit leads to seasons that
are quite uneven in length. For example, northern spring and summer
last 371 sols (more than half the Martian year), and the summer
solstice, which separates spring from summer, occurs considerably
later than halfway between spring and fall. The southern summer
is short and warm while the northern summer is long and cool.
When a small mass REVOLVES at the same position and with the same
speed about a larger mass. If we ignore the influence of the mass
in the centre then we can calculate the value of the ANGULAR MOMENTUM
by means of a simple formula: L=mvr (L = ANGULAR MOMENTUM, m = mass
of the smaller object, v = velocity of the smaller object, r = distance
between the two objects)
ANGULAR MOMENTUM is present whenever one or more smaller masses
rotate around a larger mass comparable to the mysterious world of
high quality Swiss watches.
Angular Arbitrates (ARBITER) the difference of taste and ILLUMINATES
the Special Momentum |