Consider a father pushing a child on a playground merry-go-round. the system has a moment of inertia of 84.4 kg · m2. the father exerts a force on the merry-go-round perpendicular to its radius to achieve an angular acceleration of 4.44 rad/s2. (a) how long (in s) does it take the father to give the merry-go-round an angular velocity of 1.43 rad/s? (assume the merry-go-round is initially at rest.)

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Trey Clarke

Physics

30 November, 05:30

Consider a father pushing a child on a playground merry-go-round. the system has a moment of inertia of 84.4 kg · m2. the father exerts a force on the merry-go-round perpendicular to its radius to achieve an angular acceleration of 4.44 rad/s2. (a) how long (in s) does it take the father to give the merry-go-round an angular velocity of 1.43 rad/s? (assume the merry-go-round is initially at rest.)

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Chelsea Baxter · Answer 1

At time t1 = 0 since the body is at rest, the body has an angular velocity, v1, of 0. At time t = X, the body has an angular velocity of 1.43rad/s2. Since Angular acceleration is just the difference in angular speed by time. We have 4.44 = v2 - v1/t2 - t1 where V and t are angular velocity and time. So we have 4.44 = 1.43 - 0/X - 0. Hence X = 1.43/4.44 = 0.33s.