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11.3 Exercise 29

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A space station consists of a giant rotating hollow cylinder of mass 106kg10^{6} \text{kg} including people on the station and a radius of 100.00 m. It is rotating in space at 3.30 rev/min in order to produce artificial gravity. If 100 people of an average mass of 65.00 kg spacewalk to an awaiting spaceship, what is the new rotation rate when all the people are off the station?

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