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Homework Statement
A 2.8-m-diameter merry-go-round with rotational inertia 140kg⋅m2 is spinning freely at 0.40rev/s . Four 25-kg children sit suddenly on the edge of the merry-go-round.
a) Find the new angular speed.
b) Determine the total energy lost to friction between the children and the merry-go-round.
The Attempt at a Solution
a) 0.17rev (verified)
b) The old mass is 17.85714286kg, old angular speed is 2.513274123 ms-1
The new mass is 117.85714286kg, new angular speed is 1.066237507ms-1
To find the change in energy:
0.5(117.85714286kg)(1.066237507ms-1)2 - 0.5(17.85714286kg)(2.513274123 ms-1)2
The answer is 260j but I'm not getting it.