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Let's note the units given for tex2html_wrap_inline663 , it's in rev/s. In the last section, and most everything we'll do from now on, we'll want to work in radians. So we should first do the appropriate conversion

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Our problem gives the initial and final angular velocity, and the number of revolutions that the fan rotated. That looks like a job for eqn. 1.20. Setting tex2html_wrap_inline667 and solving for tex2html_wrap_inline653 we have

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Joshua Deutsch
Wed Jan 22 17:07:34 PST 1997