Answer
a)
Work Step by Step
The net torque on the vertical section is greater. After all, if this were not the case, there would be nothing causing the pulley to rotate in the clockwise direction.
Essential University Physics: Volume 1 (4th Edition)
by Wolfson, Richard
Published by
Pearson
ISBN 10:
0-134-98855-8
ISBN 13:
978-0-13498-855-9
Chapter 10 - Section 10.3 - Rotational Inertia and the Analog of Newton’s Law - Got It? - Page 185: 10.5
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