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Average angular velocity (8-1)

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Duration of the time inteval

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Here ω is the Greek letter omega, and the z in the subscript tells us that the blade is rotating around an axis that we call the z axis (Figure 8-3). For any rotating rigid object, the value of ωaverage, z is the same for all pieces of the object. The average angular velocity can be positive or negative, depending on the direction in which the object rotates. A common choice is to take counterclockwise rotation to be positive and clockwise rotation to be negative, but the choice is up to you.