Two fly wheels A and B are mounted side by side with frictionless bearings on a common shaft. Their moments…

Two fly wheels A and B are mounted side by side with frictionless bearings on a common shaft. Their moments of inertia about the shaft are 5.0 kg m2 and 20.0 kg m2 respectively. Wheel A is made to rotate at 10 revolution per second. Wheel B, initially stationary, is now coupled to A with the help of a clutch. The rotation speed of the wheels will become
  1. 25 rps
  2. 0.5 rps
  3. 2 rps
  4. 3 rps

Solution

When wheel B, initially stationary is coupled to A with the help of a clutch, both will have a common angular velocity and let that be ω.
Since there is no external torque, angular momentum will be conserved.

From conservation of angular momentum,Iω=I1ω1+I2ω2

Iω=5×10+20×0

Iω=50

5+20ω=50

ω=505+20

ω=2 rps

Asked in: AP EAMCET 2021 (20 Aug Shift 2)

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