
Topic: Rigid Bodies
Concepts: Moments of inertia, Rolling down inclined plane
Solution:

Recall the acceleration of an object rolling without slipping down an incline of angle is
where the object has moment of inertia . We will find the effective for our composite object of a spherical shell containing a frictionless fluid. Since the shell and fluid both have mass , this object has mass . A frictionless fluid does not have rotational inertia so only the shell contributes to the moment of inertia . Thus,
so the answer is B.

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