Walking on a Merry-Go-Round A child of mass stands at rest near the rim of a sta

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Walking on a Merry-Go-Round A child of mass stands at rest near the rim of a stationary merry-go-round of radius and moment of inertia . The child now begins to walk around the circumference of the merry-go-round with a tangential speed with respect to the merry-go-round's surface.

A) What is the child's speed with respect to the ground?
B) Check your result in the limits I -->0
C) Check your result in the limits I--> infinity



Express your answers in terms of some or all of the variables m, R, I, and v.

Explanation / Answer

a. Vg = Iv/(I + R^2 m) b. 0 c. v

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