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But wouldn't I need the angular velocity of the turntable to figure out the velocity of the beetle with respect to me?

Homework Statement A beetle with a mass of 30.0 g is initially at rest on the outer edge of a horizontal turntable that is also initially at rest. The turntable, which is free to rotate with no friction about an axis through its center, has a mass of 80.0 g and can be treated as a uniform...