You and a friend are playing with a Merry-Go-Round in a park. You measure it and...

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You and a friend are playing with a Merry-Go-Round in a park. You measure it and it has an outer radius of 1.60 m and can be modeled as a solid disk. You ask a maintenance person in the park and they say it has a mass of 85.0 kg. Now you start pushing the Merry-Go-Round to get it moving - you can see a video example of this here. (Merry-Go-Round in a park). The video illustrates the idea of the motion - please do NOT use it for numerical values. After the Merry-Go-Round is moving, it has an initial angular velocity of 30.0 rad/s. After a few seconds you notice that it is slowing down. When you look under the Merry-Go-Round, you notice that it has a branch underneath it, creating friction and slowing it. This branch is applying 75.0 N of force at a distance of 0.75 m from the axis of rotation. You can assume this is being applied perpendicular to the radial direction. What is the angular velocity of Merry-Go-Round after 14.7 s of the branch slowing it down? You and a friend are playing with a Merry-Go-Round in a park. You measure it and it has an outer radius of 1.60 m and can be modeled as a solid disk. You ask a maintenance person in the park and they say it has a mass of 85.0 kg. Now you start pushing the Merry-Go-Round to get it moving - you can see a video example of this here. (Merry-Go-Round in a park). The video illustrates the idea of the motion - please do NOT use it for numerical values. After the Merry-Go-Round is moving, it has an initial angular velocity of 30.0 rad/s. After a few seconds you notice that it is slowing down. When you look under the Merry-Go-Round, you notice that it has a branch underneath it, creating friction and slowing it. This branch is applying 75.0 N of force at a distance of 0.75 m from the axis of rotation. You can assume this is being applied perpendicular to the radial direction. What is the angular velocity of Merry-Go-Round after 14.7 s of the branch slowing it down?

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