Suppose you are rotating in a chair with 2 equal masses held in each outstretched hand and you drop them. What happens to your angular velocity? a) increase b) decrease c) stays the same d) Is lost
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Step 1: When you drop the masses, the moment of inertia decreases because the masses are no longer part of the system. Show more…
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