when spinning a ice skater abducts her arms to slow her spinning. From a mechanics point of view, why does abducting her arms slow her spinning?

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when spinning a ice skater abducts her arms to slow her spinning. From a mechanics point of view, why does abducting her arms slow her spinning?

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When the ice skater abducting her arms the distance between her axis of rotation and some of her mass increases.

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