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Robin Hood and Marian decide to build a snowmen at the edge of a cliff.  The sn…

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Moment of Inertia

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Robin Hood and Marian decide to build a snowmen at the edge of a cliff.  The snowman consists of three spheres with radii 90 cm, 60 cm and 30 cm, and the density of snow is 300kg/m3300kg/m^3.  Little John is a jerk and pushes the snowman over the cliff.  The snowman begins to rotate around its center of mass as it falls.  What is the moment of inertia of the snowman as it’s falling? (For a solid sphere, ICM=25MR2 , and  V=43πR3I_{CM}=\frac{2}{5}MR^2\ ,\ and\ \ V=\frac{4}{3}\pi R^3, )


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More Moment of Inertia Questions:
A horizontal platform in a shape of a disk rotates on a frictionless bearing about a vertical axle through the center of the disk. The platform has a mass of 200 kg and radius of 3.0 meters. A student with mass 80 kg, walks from the edge towards the center of the platform.
a) Find the moment of inertia of the disk.
b) If the angular speed of the disk is 2 rad/s, when the student moves another meter towards the center, find their angular speed.
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