On the Wheel of Fortune game show, a solid wheel (of radius 7.4 m and mass 10 kg) is given an initial counterclockwise angular velocity of +1.11 rad/s. It then smoothly slows down and stops after rotating through 3/4 of a turn.
(a) Find the frictional torque that acts to stop the
wheel.
= N · m
(b) Assuming that the torque is unchanged, but the mass of the
wheel is halved and its radius is doubled. How will this affect the
angle through which it rotates before coming to rest? (Make
sure you can reason this with proportionalities.)
increase, decrease or stay the same?
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