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A merry-go-round is a playground ride that consists of a large disk mounted to that it can freely rotate in a horizontal plane. The merry-go-round shown is initially at rest, has a radius R = 1.3 meters, and a mass M = 231 kg. A small boy of mass m = 48 kg runs tangentially to the merry-go-round at a speed of v = 2.5 m/s, and jumps on.