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Chapter 11: Problem 14
If you increase the rotation rate of a precessing gyroscope, will the precession rate increase or decrease?
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As an automotive engineer, you're charged with redesigning a car's wheels with the goal of decreasing each wheel's angular momentum by \(30 \%\) for a given linear speed of the car. Other design considerations require that the wheel diameter go from \(38 \mathrm{cm}\) to \(35 \mathrm{cm} .\) If the old wheel had rotational inertia \(0.32 \mathrm{kg} \cdot \mathrm{m}^{2},\) what do you specify for the new rotational inertia?
A baseball player extends his arm straight up to catch a \(145-\mathrm{g}\) baseball moving horizontally at \(42 \mathrm{m} / \mathrm{s}\). It's \(63 \mathrm{cm}\) from the player's shoulder joint to the point the ball strikes his hand, and his arm remains stiff while it rotates about the shoulder during the catch. The player's hand recoils \(5.00 \mathrm{cm}\) horizontally while he stops the ball. What average torque does the player's arm exert on the ball?
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