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There are two discs of masses 3.0 kg and 2.0 kg and radii 10 cm and 5 cm, respectively. The discs are rotating about their respective center of masses with angular speeds 200 rpm and 300 rpm. The discs are brought together into contact face-to-face with their axes of rotation coincident. a) What is the angular speed of the two-disc system? b) What are the kinetic energies of the discs when they were apart? Denote them as K1 and K2. c) What is the kinetic energy of the two-disc system? Denote it as K. d) Compute difference in kinetic energies |K – (K1+K2)|. How do you account for this difference in kinetic energy?