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Consider the child's playground merry-go-round wheel.
Merry Go Round If the steel disk has mass of 200 kg and a radius of 2 meters you can make it spin by applying a force to the rim. This torque increases the angular momentum of the disk. Suppose the force is 20 newtons. How long would you have to apply it to get the wheel spinning 5 times a minute? What would happen to the rate of spin if you then jumped on the rim of the wheel with your mass of 60 kg?
Explain your answer.