Physics HW #5 Section 8.

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Problems 51, 52, 53, 55, 59, 60, 63
51.

The angular momentum is given by Eq. 8-18.

L I MR 2 0.210 kg 1.10 m

10.4 rad s

2.64 kg gm 2 s

52. (a) The angular momentum is given by Eq. 8-18.

L I 12 MR 2

1
2

2
2.8 kg 0.18 m

2 rad

1500 rev

1 min

1 rev

1 min

60
s

7.1kg gm 2 s
(b) The torque required is the change in angular momentum per unit time. The final angular
momentum is zero.
L L0 0 7.1kg gm 2 s

1.2 m gN
t
6.0 s
The negative sign indicates that the torque is used to oppose the initial angular momentum.
53. (a) Consider the person and platform a system for angular momentum analysis. Since the force and
torque to raise and/or lower the arms is internal to the system, the raising or lowering of the arms will cause no
change in the total angular momentum of the system. However, the rotational inertia increases when the arms
are raised. Since angular momentum is conserved, an increase in rotational inertia must be accompanied by a
decrease in angular velocity.

1.30 rev s
Li L f I ii I f f I f I i i I i
1.625 I i 1.6 I i
f
0.80 rev s
(b)
1.6

The rotational inertia has increased by a factor of

55. The skaters angular momentum is constant, since no external torques are applied to her.

0.50 rev s
Li L f I ii I f f I f I i i 4.6 kg gm 2
0.77 kg gm 2
f
3.0 rev s

She accomplishes this by starting with her arms extended (initial angular velocity) and then
pulling her arms in to the center of her body
(final angular velocity).
59. Since there are no external torques on the system, the angular momentum of the 2-disk system is conserved. The two
disks have the same final angular velocity.
Li L f

I I 0 2I f

f 12

60. The angular momentum of the disk rod combination will be conserved because there are no external torques on the
combination. This situation is a totally inelastic collision, in which the final angular velocity is the same for both the
disk and the rod. Subscript 1 represents before the collision, and subscript 2 represents after the collision. The rod
has no initial angular momentum.

L1 L2 I11 I 22
2 1

I1
I2

I disk
I disk I rod

1
2

MR 2

1
2

MR
2

1
12

3
2.4 rev s 1.4 rev s
5

M 2 R

63. Since the lost mass carries away no angular momentum, the angular momentum of the remaining mass will be the
same as the initial angular momentum.
2
f
M R2
I
M i Ri2
Li L f I ii I f f
i 25 i i 2
2.0 10 4
2
i I f
M f R f 0.5M i 0.01R f
5

2 rad 1 d
2
2

4.848 10 rad s 5 10 rad s

30 day 86400 s

f 2.0 10 4 i 2.0 10 4

The period would be a factor of 20,000 smaller, which would make it about 130 seconds.
The ratio of angular kinetic energies of the spinning mass would be
KE f
KEi

1
2

I f 2f

1
2

I i

2
i

1
2

2
5

0.5M i 0.01Ri 2
1
2

2
5

2.0 10

MiR
2
i

2
i

2.0 10 4

KE f 2 10 4 KEi