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conservation of angular momentum comparison table

Subject	is a kind of	has conserved quantity	has definition
conservation law	law		A quantity that remains unchanged in the course of the evolution of a dynamical system. There are seven known quantities that are conserved: energy (including mass), momentum, angular momentum (including spin), charge, electron-family number, muon-family number, and baryon-family number.
conservation of angular momentum	conservation law	angular momentum	The total angular momentum of an isolated dynamical system does not change during the course of its evolution.

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