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Consider a disk, having mass and radius , that spins rapidly about an axle at its center, spinning with an angular velocity . The disk's axle is connected by a thin, massless rod of length to a central pivot. The end of the massless rod is fixed in place at that pivot, but it can freely rotate in all directions. 1) If the disk's mass and radius were each doubled, while keeping the other quantities (, , and ) fixed, by what factor would the rate of precession change

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The precision will change by a factor of 1/4

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