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AP Physics C: Mechanics
6.2 Torque and Work
6.1 Rotational Kinetic Energy
5.6 Newton’s Second Law in Rotational Form
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A top-down view of a horizontal plane showing a thin straight rod pivoted at its left end. A fixed pivot is represented by a small solid black circle at the left end of the rod. The uniform rod extends horizontally to the right from the pivot to a free end. Above the free end, a curved arrow pointing counterclockwise indicates the direction of motion and is labeled \(\omega\). Below the rod, a curved arrow pointing clockwise indicates the opposing retarding torque and is labeled \(\tau\). A light gray bounding box encloses the rod to represent the fluid bath. No other labels, lines, text, or axes appear.
Top-down view of the rotating rod in the fluid bath.
A uniform thin rod of rotational inertia \(I\) is pivoted at one end and rotates in a horizontal plane about a vertical axis through the pivot. The rod is immersed in a viscous fluid that exerts a retarding torque of magnitude \(\tau = b\omega\) on the rod, where \(b\) is a positive constant and \(\omega\) is the instantaneous angular speed. At time \(t = 0\), the rod has an initial angular speed \(\omega_0\) and rotational kinetic energy \(K_0\). Which of the following expressions correctly represents the kinetic energy \(K\) of the rod as a function of its angular displacement \(\theta\) from its initial position before it comes to rest?

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