A)What is the rotational inertia of the merry-go-round (consider it a disk)? B)What is the initial rotational inertia of John (consider him a point mass). C)What is the initial angular momentum, Lmgr, of the merry-go-round?
A merry-go-round is a common piece of playground equipment. A 5 m diameter (that's diameter) merry-go-round rotates frictionlessly. It has a mass of 166 kg and is spinning at 22 rpm (that's revolutions/minute... you will want to convert to radians/sec). John runs tangent to the merry-go-round at 2.5 m/s in the same direction that it is turning. John's mass is 27 kg. He then jumps onto the MGR and sits halfway between the outer edge and the center.
A)What is the rotational inertia of the merry-go-round (consider it a disk)?
B)What is the initial rotational inertia of John (consider him a point mass).
C)What is the initial
(D)What is the initial angular momentum, LJ, of John?
(E)What is the total initial angular momentum of the system?
(F)Use Conservation of Angular Momentum to find the final angular speed of the merry-go-round?

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