Problems & Exercises
(a) 2.0 ms
(b) The time interval is too short.
(c) The moment of inertia is much too small, by one to two orders of magnitude. A torque of is reasonable.
(a) 17,500 rpm
(b) This angular velocity is very high for a disk of this size and mass. The radial acceleration at the edge of the disk is > 50,000 gs.
(c) Flywheel mass and radius should both be much greater, allowing for a lower spin rate (angular velocity).
(a)
(b)
The angular momentum of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun is times larger than the angular momentum of the Earth around its axis.