How Do You Calculate the Moment of Inertia in a Swivel Chair Experiment?

[NopeIDk]

While sitting in a swivel chair, you push against the floor with your heel to make the chair spin. The 7.9 N frictional force is applied at a point 38 cm from the chair's rotation axis, in the direction that causes the greatest angular acceleration.
If that angular acceleration is 1.8 rad/s2 , what is the total moment of inertia about the axis of you and the chair?

 

[berkeman]

While sitting in a swivel chair, you push against the floor with your heel to make the chair spin. The 7.9 N frictional force is applied at a point 38 cm from the chair's rotation axis, in the direction that causes the greatest angular acceleration.
If that angular acceleration is 1.8 rad/s2 , what is the total moment of inertia about the axis of you and the chair?

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