You are sitting on a merry-go-round of mass 200 kg and radius 2m that is at rest (not spinning). your mass is 50 kg. your friend pushes the edge of the merry go round with 100 n of force, applied at a 90 deg angle. (hint: the merry-go-round is a disk).
a. how much torque did your friend apply?
b. what is your angular acceleration if you are sitting in the middle of the merry-go-round?
c. what is your angular acceleration if you are sitting at the edge of the merry-go-round?
d. which angular acceleration is larger and why?
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b.
c. 
d. The angular acceleration when sitting in the middle is larger.
, being r the radius, F the force aplied and 
the angle between the vector force and the vector radius. Since 
and so 
.
hols, being I the moment of inertia, the angular acceleration can be calculated by 
. Since we have already calculated the torque, all left is calculate the moment of inertia. The moment of inertia of a solid disk rotating about an axis that passes through its center is 
, being M the mass of the disk. If we assume that a person has a punctual mass, the moment of inertia of a person would be given by 
, being 
the mass of the person and 
the distance from the person to the center. Given all of this, we have
.
, so
.
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