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The angular momentum of a freely rotating disk around its center is L_disk. You toss a...
The angular momentum of a freely rotating disk around its center is L_disk. You toss a heavy block horizontally onto the disk at two different orientations, but with the same speed, as shown in the figure. Friction acts between the disk and the block so that eventually the block is at rest on the disk and rotates with it.
In which case is the magnitude of the final angular momentum of the disk-block system the greatest?
Case A
Case B
Same for both