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OS-AP-10-4 · OpenStax College Physics for AP Courses 2e

Angular Acceleration (Problem 4)

Unreasonable Results You are told that a basketball player spins the ball with an angular acceleration of . (a) What is the ball’s final angular velocity if the ball starts from rest and the acceleration lasts 2.00 s? (b) What is unreasonable about the result? (c) Which premises are unreasonable or inconsistent? Select the answer to part (a).