i figured out that the direction is in the negative y cause the clay falls on the disc but i still can't figure out either before or after the impact momentum
1. A rotating uniform-density disk of radius 0.9 m is mounted in the vertical plane. The axle is held up by supports that are not shown, and the disk is free to rotate on the nearly frictionless axle. The disk has mass 3.6 kg. A lump of clay with mass 0.4 kg falls and sticks to the outer edge of...
my friend had the numbers 4 hrs 4 degrees outside 22 degrees inside and 51 kwh and his answer was 1417.17 watts if that helps but someone else solved it for him