Question

You've been hired by a company that is designing a new toboggan (Slide) for an aquatic amusement park. In the conceptual design, a client is expected to go down the slide with a curved terminal and then move horizontally at the bottom. At the end of the slide, the customer grasps the outer of a 16.0 m long vertical bar that can rotate around its center. After grabbing the bar, the client falls into a pool. When the bar displace (oscillates) at its maximum distance, the client can drop it and fall into the water.

A) Determine the height of the slide, such that the maximum horizontal distance that the bar displace is 5.0 m, for a person of 60 kg. The bar has five times the mass of a 60 kg person.

*From the physics book, you can find the moment of inertia of the bar under consideration.

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