A space station in the shape of a uniform disk (mass 8.44x105 kg, radius 687 m)...

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A space station in the shape of a uniform disk (mass 8.44x105kg, radius 687 m) rotates with period 86.3 seconds. There are also781 astronauts (whom you can treat as point particles) workinginside the space station, each of mass 188 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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