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Final angular velocity of a merry-go-round?
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[QUOTE="PeroK, post: 5100869, member: 493650"] You could use conservation of angular momentum, but you can also think of the child applying an impulse (torque) when it jumps off. As the child is not rotating or in a circular orbit, I think it's confusing to consider its angular velocity. There is, of course, a more fundamental definition/equation for angular momentum that it would be better to use. To understand the angular momentum in this case, you could consider the following: A particle moves at a constant velocity ##v## from the point (0, 1) along the line ##y=1##. Calculate its angular momentum about the origin and check that this is conserved as it follows its linear path. [/QUOTE]
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