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A runner of mass 61.0 kg runs around the edge of a horizontal turntable mounted on a vertical, frictionless axis through its center. The runner's velocity relative to the earth has magnitude 2.90 m/s . The turntable is rotating in the opposite direction with an angular velocity of magnitude 0.170 rad/s relative to the earth. The radius of the turntable is 2.60 m , and its moment of inertia about the axis of rotation is 83.0 kg⋅m^2 .
Find the final angular velocity of the system if the runner comes to rest relative to the turntable. (You can treat the runner as a particle.)
The answer is 0.9 anticlockwise
If you think why we have conserved the angular momentum then the answer is netthe torque is zero
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