Q7.13 (a) A child stands at the centre of a turntable with his two arms outstretched. The
turntable is set rotating with an angular speed of . How much is the
angular speed of the child if he folds his hands back and thereby reduces his
moment of inertia to the initial value ? Assume that the turntable
rotates without friction.
We are given with the initial angular speed and the relation between the moment of inertia of both the cases.
Here we can use conservation of angular momentum as no external force is acting the system.
So we can write :