A teenager pushes tangentially on a small hand-drivenmerry-go-round and is able to accelerate it from rest to afrequency of 20 rpm in 8.0 s. Assume the merry-go-round is auniform disk of radius 2.5 m and has a mass of 600 kg, and twochildren (each with a mass of 20 kg) sit opposite each other on theedge.
Calculate the torque required to produce the acceleration,neglecting frictional torque.
mN
What force is required at the edge?
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