A 30-kg child is sitting 5.0 m from the center of a 500-kg merry-go-round that is rotating counter-clockwise at 1.70 rad/s.  A braking mechanism provides an acceleration of magnitude 0.05 rad/s2.   Determine the number of rotations to bring the merry-go-round to rest. What is the initial tangential velocity of the child?

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A 30-kg child is sitting 5.0 m from the center of a 500-kg merry-go-round that is rotating counter-clockwise at 1.70 rad/s.  A braking mechanism provides an acceleration of magnitude 0.05 rad/s2.

 

  1. Determine the number of rotations to bring the merry-go-round to rest.



  1. What is the initial tangential velocity of the child?
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