A Ferris wheel rotates because a motor exerts a torque on the wheel. The radius of the

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A Ferris wheel rotates because a motor exerts a torque on the wheel. The radius of the London Eye, a huge observation wheel on the banks of the Thames, is 67.5 m and its mass is 1.90 × 106 kg. The cruising angular speed of the wheel is 3.50 × 10−3 rad/s. 

(a) How much work does the motor need to do to bring the stationary wheel up to cruising speed?  

(b) What is the torque (assumed constant) the motor needs to provide to the wheel if it takes 20.0 s to reach the cruising angular speed?

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