QUESTION 1 (Show your work)
mi
R
Two children, of masses m1 = m2 = 20 kg,
ride on the perimeter of a small merry-
go-round. The merry-go-round is a disk
of mass M = 30 kg
and radius R = 3 m, as shown in the figure
below.
The moment of inertia of the system
(merry-go-round, child 1, child 2) about
the center of the merry-go-round is
equal to:
M M
m2