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Model the Earth as a uniform sphere.
Calculate the angular momentum of the Earth due to its spinning motion about its axis.

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Solution

The earth turns towards the east, current clockwise as seen from above north, so the vector angular momentum points north along the earth axis, towards north celestial pole.

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