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Wow thank you guys! I forgot to turn on email notifications so I didn't realize you all replied. A lot of food for thought, I'm going to have to think about this one more. Thank you!

Homework Statement Hi all! I have a very simple problem, which seems to get two different answers depending on whether you use conservation of angular momentum, or energy. Both quantities seem to be conserved: Initially we have a disk of radius a spinning about its center of mass at known...