What is the angular momentum of an object with a mass of 5 kg5kg that moves along a circular path of radius 4 m4m at a frequency of 4 Hz 4Hz?

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Sep 9, 2016

I'll illustrate it below.

Explanation:

The mass of the object is m = 5 kgm=5kg and radius of the path is r = 4 mr=4m.

Now, frequency is f = 4 Hzf=4Hz
But, we know that, angular frequency omega = 2pifω=2πf

Thus, omega = 8piω=8π radianradian s^-1s1

Now, we have the relation from elementary dynamics that,

L = IomegaL=Iω where II is the magnitude of the moment of inertia about the concerned axis.
Further, I = mr^2I=mr2 which implies that L = momegar^2L=mωr2

We have now deduced an expression for the angular momentum LL in terms of mass mm, angular velocity omegaω and radius of path rr.

All you have to do now is plug in the values and get the final result. I won't be doing it for you though.
I'm leaving it as an exercise.

I hope it helped.