A 25.0 kg child sits at the outer edge of a merry-go-round that has mass 200 kg and radius 4.0 m and is rotating at 1.0 rad/s.    a. If the child moves to the center of merry-go-round, what is the resulting angular speed?    Treat the merry-go-round as a solid cylinder.    b. What is the change in the kinetic energy of the system? c. Is this “collision” elastic, inelastic or an explosion?

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A 25.0 kg child sits at the outer edge of a merry-go-round that has mass 200 kg and radius 4.0 m and is rotating at 1.0 rad/s.   

a. If the child moves to the center of merry-go-round, what is the resulting angular speed?    Treat the merry-go-round as a solid cylinder.   

b. What is the change in the kinetic energy of the system?

c. Is this “collision” elastic, inelastic or an explosion?   

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