Two discs are rotating about their axes, normal to the discs and passing through the centres of the discs. Disc has mass and radius and initial angular velocity of . Disc has mass, radius and initial angular velocity of . The two discs are brought in contact face to face, with their axes of rotation coincident. The final angular velocity (in ) of the system is
Let the moments of inertia of the two discs be and . For a uniform disc, . Initial angular momentum of the system, When the two discs are brought in contact, they will rotate together with a common final angular velocity due to internal friction between them. There is no net external torque on the system along the axis of rotation. By conservation of angular momentum:
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