The answer is no. If you just step off, the merry go round will keep going the same speed (angular speed). But why? Let me start with a diagram showing you just before and right after you step off.
In an introductory physics course, there are three big ideas. There is the work-energy principle, the momentum principle and then the angular momentum principle. I'll skip the work-energy principle ...
If the angular velocity of a link in a mechanism is zero, does this imply that the angular acceleration of that link is also zero? The short answer to that question is NO. If ω(t) represents the ...
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