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11.3 Exercise 25

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A gymnast does cartwheels along the floor and then launches herself into the air and executes several flips in a tuck while she is airborne. If her moment of inertia when executing the cartwheels is 13.5kg·m213.5 \text{kg} \cdot \text{m}^{2} and her spin rate is 0.5 rev/s, how many revolutions does she do in the air if her moment of inertia in the tuck is 3.4kg·m23.4 \text{kg} \cdot \text{m}^{2} and she has 2.0 s to do the flips in the air?

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