Question: The well - known virus has a spherical shape with a number of spikes on the surface. The diameter of the sphere is 1 0

The well-known virus has a spherical shape with a number of spikes on the surface. The diameter of the sphere is 100 nm and the spikes are 9 nm long.Assume the virus as a sphere filled with water and only six spikes as long slender bars of 139 kDa (that is 139000 u and u=1.6610-27 kg), mounted on the surface with equal distances to their respective neighbors (all perpendicular to the next one). Let the virus rotate around an axis collinear with an arbitrary pair of spikes (see figure for illustration). How much energy is required to let the virus do one full rotation within 10 ms? What is the angular momentum

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