Estimate force is required at the edge

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A teenager pushes tangentially on a small hand-driven merry-go-round and is able to accelerate it from rest to a frequency of 12 rpm in 9.5 s. Assume the merry-go-round is a uniform disk of radius 2.5 m and has a mass of 760 kg, and two children (each with a mass of 25 kg) sit opposite each other on the edge.

1) Calculate the torque required to produce the acceleration, neglecting frictional torque.

2) What force is required at the edge?

Reference no: EM13514828

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