Record and Turntable
Learning Goal: To understand how to use conservation of angular momentum to solve problems involving collisions of rotating bodies.
Consider a turntable to be a circular disk of moment of inertia rotating at a constant angular velocity around an axis through the center and perpendicular to the plane of the disk (the disk's "primary axis of symmetry"). The axis of the disk is vertical and the disk is supported by frictionless bearings. The motor of the turntable is off, so there is no external torque being applied to the axis.
Another disk (a record) is dropped onto the first such that it lands coaxially (the axes coincide). The moment of inertia of the record is . The initial angular velocity of the second disk is zero.

There is friction between the two disks.

After this "rotational collision," the disks will eventually rotate with the same angular velocity.
Part A
What is the final angular velocity, , of the two disks?
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Express in terms of , , and .
 = (I_t/(I_t+I_r))*omega_i
Part B
Because of friction, kinetic energy is not conserved while the disks' surfaces slip over each other. What is the final kinetic energy, , of the two spinning disks?
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Express the final kinetic energy in terms of , , and the initial kinetic energy of the two-disk system. No angular velocities should appear in your answer.