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A girl of mass M stands on the rim of a frictionless merry go-round of radius R and rotational inertia I that is not moving. She throws a rock of mass m horizontally in a direction that is tangent to the outer edge of the merry go-round. The speed of the rock, relative to the ground, is v. Afterward, the linear speed of the girl is

a
mvR2I+MR2
b
(m+M)vR2I+MR2
c
mvR2I+(M+m)R2
d
mvR2I+(M−m)R2

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Correct option is A

The initial angular momentum of the system is zero. The final angular momentum of the girl-plus-merry-go-round is I+MR2ω,which we will take to be positive. The final angular momentum we associate with the thrown rock is negative: -mRv, where v is the speed (positive, by definition) of the rock relative to the ground.Angular momentum conservation leads to0=I+MR2ω−mRv⇒ω=mRvI+MR2The girl's linear speed is Rω=mvR2I+MR2

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