Angular momentum

Quality:

Angular momentum - measure of the extent to which an object will continue to rotate in the absence of an applied torque. Article “Angular momentum” in English Wikipedia has 74.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 60 references and 33 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8916^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Angular momentum”, its content was written by 487 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 2100 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1026 times in English Wikipedia and cited 8301 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1153 in December 2001
• Global: #1243 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4654 in November 2014
• Global: #4345 in November 2014

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Angular momentum		74.9146
2	Turkish (tr) Açısal momentum		51.3085
3	German (de) Drehimpuls		44.1967
4	Tamil (ta) வளைவுந்தம்		40.9218
5	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Vinkelmoment		35.677
6	Hindi (hi) कोणीय संवेग		30.0534
7	Catalan (ca) Moment angular		28.8296
8	Norwegian (no) Dreieimpuls		27.9505
9	Italian (it) Momento angolare		27.8489
10	Polish (pl) Moment pędu		25.9672

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angular momentum		11 663 435
2	Spanish (es) Momento angular		2 904 598
3	German (de) Drehimpuls		2 454 043
4	Russian (ru) Момент импульса		2 343 091
5	Italian (it) Momento angolare		1 538 073
6	French (fr) Moment cinétique		1 413 814
7	Japanese (ja) 角運動量		985 903
8	Polish (pl) Moment pędu		954 884
9	Chinese (zh) 角动量		889 690
10	Portuguese (pt) Momento angular		698 981

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Angular momentum		14 059
2	French (fr) Moment cinétique		2 510
3	Russian (ru) Момент импульса		2 227
4	German (de) Drehimpuls		2 221
5	Spanish (es) Momento angular		1 717
6	Chinese (zh) 角动量		1 544
7	Polish (pl) Moment pędu		1 425
8	Italian (it) Momento angolare		1 391
9	Japanese (ja) 角運動量		1 374
10	Korean (ko) 각운동량		556

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Angular momentum		487
2	German (de) Drehimpuls		224
3	French (fr) Moment cinétique		125
4	Spanish (es) Momento angular		94
5	Russian (ru) Момент импульса		88
6	Italian (it) Momento angolare		87
7	Dutch (nl) Impulsmoment		69
8	Hebrew (he) תנע זוויתי		67
9	Turkish (tr) Açısal momentum		51
10	Hungarian (hu) Perdület		48

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Greek (el) Στροφορμή		1
2	Esperanto (eo) Angula movokvanto		1
3	Norwegian (no) Dreieimpuls		1
4	Romanian (ro) Moment cinetic		1
5	Arabic (ar) زخم زاوي		0
6	Azerbaijani (az) İmpuls momenti		0
7	Belarusian (be) Момант імпульсу		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Момент на импулса		0
9	Catalan (ca) Moment angular		0
10	Czech (cs) Moment hybnosti		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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