Monica stands at the edge of a circular platform that is slowly rotating on a frictionless axle. She then walks toward the opposite edge, passing through the platform's center.

Describe the motion of the platform as Monica makes her trip.

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increaces decreases stays constant twice larger than initially twice smaller than initially the same value as initially Consider the Monica-platform system to be isolated (hence the frictionless axle) so that the angular momentum is conserved. As Monica walks toward the center the moment of inertia of the system I so the angular velocity w because angular momentum L=Iw Once she passes the center and gets closer to the opposite edge the moment of inertia until it is Hence the angular velocity until it is