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Can anyone help me find acceleration of a rotating cylinder?

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A solid cylinder of mass 75kg and radius 20cm is mounted to rotate on a fixed horizontal axis that passes through the center of the circular ends of the cylinder. A 10kg block is hung from a massless rope wrapped around the cylinder's circumference. When the block is released the rope unwinds and the block accelerates downward. What is the cylinder's acceleration?

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  1. 1.  am = Fm/m = (mg-T)/m

    2.  ÃŽÂ± = Q/Ic = T*r/(½Mcr²) = 2T/Mc*r

    but

    3.  ÃŽÂ±*r = am → 2T/Mc = (mg-T)/m → T = g/(2/M + 1/m)

    Using this value of T in eq 2,

    α = 2[g/(2/M+1/m)]/(Mc*r)

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