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How can a body moving in a straight line also posses angular momentum? This means total momentum acting on a body in a straight line is angular momentum + linear momentum?

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When a body seem to be moving in a straight path be its circular path is of very large radius. So while a body is having linear motion it also has a circular motion.So total momentum acting on the body is the sum of linear momentumand angular momentum.

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