A space station in the shape of a uniform disk (mass 4.45x105 kg, radius 262 m)...

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A space station in the shape of a uniform disk (mass 4.45x105kg, radius 262 m) rotates with period 86.1 seconds. There are also734 astronauts (whom you can treat as point particles) workinginside the space station, each of mass 155 kg, and all standing onthe outside rim and rotating with the station. Now, all theastronauts move to a conference room at the very center of thespace station. Find the new period of the rotation of the spacestation.

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Mass of the space station is Radius of the space station is R262mMoment of inertia of the space station is equal to the moment ofinertia of a disk of mass M and    See Answer
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