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Homework Statement
A 55 kg runner runs around the edge of a horizontal turntable mounted on a vertical, frictionless axis through its center. The runner's velocity relative to the Earth has magnitude of 3.1 m/s. The turntable is rotating in the opposite direction with an angular velocity of magnitude 0.20 rad/s relative to the earth. The radius of the turntable is 3.0 m, and its moment of inertia about the axis of rotation is 120 kg-m2. Find the final angular velocity of the turntable if the runner slows to a walk in such a way that she is at rest relative to the earth.
Homework Equations
ΔL = 0
L1 = L2
The Attempt at a Solution
This was ripped off from a problem in the book that asked for "the final angular velocity of the system if the runner comes to rest relative to the turntable," which I did just that, but I just noticed that this problem's last sentence is a different variation (final angular velocity of the turntable if the runner slows to a walk in such a way that she is at rest relative to the earth.")
Here is what I did - should I change anything at the end?