Question: A thin, very light wire is wrapped around a drum that is free to rotate. The free end of the wire is attached to a

A thin, very light wire is wrapped around a drum that is free to rotate. The free end of the wire is attached to a ball of mass m. The drum has the same mass m. Its radius is R and its moment of inertia is I =(1/2)mR2. As the ball falls, the drum spins.
At an instant that the ball has translational kinetic energy K, what is the rotational kinetic energy of the drum?
Group of answer choices
2K
K/2
K
K/4

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