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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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Brought to you by a spinning rod Not impressed Just

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add some sparkles and ribbon and well you've got a

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baton All right check out the following diagram this thing

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chair All right a rod of length L hibbitts around

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its mid point A particle with mass m flies toward

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it Add velocity v and sticks onto the end of

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the rod What is the total angular momenta mb of

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the rod and hear the potential answers a lot of

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forms Okay well we're getting off easy here No need

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to break out super computers to do heavy math We

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just have to know our equations to answer this one

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And since we've been studying day and night cram more

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and more physics in your brain we know that the

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equation for angular momentum is mass times velocity times the

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distance to the center of the revolution In this question

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the length is l but the radial distance is half

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of l since the rod pivots on its mid point

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So putting the variables together we get an equation that

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looks like this The option b is the correct answer

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And any time we want to see physics in motion

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we break out the silver wonder Put on some tunes

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from our favorite marching band And while we become one 00:01:19.57 --> [endTime] with khan

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