A professor sits at rest on a stool that can rotate without friction. The rotational inertia of the professor-stool system is 4.1 kg · m2 . A student tosses a 1.5-kg mass with a speed of 2.7 m/s to the professor, who catches it at a distance of 0.40 m from the axis of rotation. What is the resulting angular speed of the professor and the stool? (Assume that when the professor catches the mass, their arm is extended along a line radially outward from the axis of rotation, and the velocity of the mass is perpendicular to that line.)

Explanation:

We can use the conservation of the angular momentum.

Now the Inertia is I(professor_stool) plus mR², that is the momentum inertia of a hoop about central axis.

So we will have:

Now, we just need to solve it for ω.

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the small 0.38-kg slider is known to move from position a to position b along the vertical-plane slot. determine (a) the work done on the body by its weight and (b) the work done on the body by the spring. the distance r = 0.70 m, the spring modulus k = 154 n/m, and the unstretched length of the spring is 0.53 m

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