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The angular momentum of the two-cylinder
system will be strictly conserved, since there is no
pathway for transferring it across the boundary. The
wrinkle is that some angular momentum will be lost from
the "spin" coordinates and transferred to the "orbit"
coordinates. That is, the two cylinders will pick up
some nontrivial center-of-mass velocity.