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A person is sitting at rest on a stool that is free to rotate about a vertical axis. The person holds a bicycle wheel that is rapidly spinning counterclockwise when viewed from above. The person then flips the wheel over. What happens as a result?


A) The person rotates counterclockwise (as seen from above) .
B) The person rotates clockwise (as seen from above) .
C) Nothing. The wheel's angular momentum is simply dissipated in the person's body.
D) Nothing, because the wheel's angular momentum remains the same before and after the flip.
E) Something else happens (specify) .

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