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On a 12.0-cm-diameter audio compact disc (CD), digital bits of information are encoded sequentially along an outward spiraling path. The spiral starts at radius R1 = 2.5 cm and winds its way out to radius R2 = 5.8 cm. To read the digital information, a CD player rotates the CD so that the player’s readout laser scans along the spiral’s sequence of hits at a constant linear speed of 1.25 m/s. Thus the player must accurately adjust the rotational frequency f of the CD as the laser moves outward. Determine the values for f (in units of rpm) when the laser is located at R1 and when it is at R2.
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