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A professor doing a lecture demonstration stands at the center of a frictionless turntable...

A professor doing a lecture demonstration stands at the center of a frictionless turntable, holding 5.00-kg masses in each hand with arms extended so that each mass is 1.20 m from his centerline. A (carefully selected!) student spins the professor up to a rotational speed of 1.00 rpm. Ifhe then pulls his arms in by his sides so that each mass is 0.300 m from his centerline, what is his new rotation rate? Assume that his rotational inertia without the masses is 2.80 kg m/s, and neglect the effect on the rotational inertia of the position of his arms, since their mass is small compared to the mass of the body.

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