Q7.24 A bullet of mass and speed is fired into a door and gets embedded
exactly at the centre of the door. The door is wide and weighs . It is
hinged at one end and rotates about a vertical axis practically without friction. Find
the angular speed of the door just after the bullet embeds into it.
(Hint: The moment of inertia of the door about the vertical axis at one end is .)
The imparted angular momentum is given by :
Putting all the given values in the above equation we get :
Now, the moment of inertia of door is :
or
Also,
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