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? asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 1 decade ago

-Why does the coasting rotating system slow down as water drips into the beaker?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You don't explain the experiment very well, but I'll suppose a beaker sits on a freely-spinning turntable as water drips into it.

    As the total moment of inertia I increases due to the increasing water mass, the angular momentum h doesn't increase proportionally since the water is falling vertically and thus adds no angular momentum.

    Spin rate omega = h/I, and with I increasing while h remains constant, omega decreases.

  • 4 years ago

    Coasting Rotating System

  • Scotto
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Weight of the water in the beaker increases so force of pressure increases friction therefore slowing the speed.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    as water is rotating so while dripping water in beaker its effect on omega is as we know that omega=h/l so while dripping water h=constant and inertia increases with drips of water in beaker so omega decreases as it is inversely proportional to inertia. and hence rotational effect of water in beaker decreases.

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