1. You are given a circular wheel along with equipment with which the wheel can be...

 

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1. You are given a circular wheel along with equipment with which the wheel can be fixed either with horizontal axis or with vertical axis. You also have access to any equipment that you have seen or used in your physics class so far. (a) Someone informs you that the wheel has frictionless bearings, and tasks you with determining the rotational inertia / of the wheel experimentally. i. Briefly explain what you can do to confirm that the wheel's bearings are frictionless. ii. Outline a procedure by which you would make measurements that would allow you to calculate the rotational inertia of the wheel. You need only describe a single trial. Give each measurement a meaningful algebraic symbol. Draw a labeled diagram. Do NOT explain calculations on this part. 1. You are given a circular wheel along with equipment with which the wheel can be fixed either with horizontal axis or with vertical axis. You also have access to any equipment that you have seen or used in your physics class so far. (a) Someone informs you that the wheel has frictionless bearings, and tasks you with determining the rotational inertia / of the wheel experimentally. i. Briefly explain what you can do to confirm that the wheel's bearings are frictionless. ii. Outline a procedure by which you would make measurements that would allow you to calculate the rotational inertia of the wheel. You need only describe a single trial. Give each measurement a meaningful algebraic symbol. Draw a labeled diagram. Do NOT explain calculations on this part.