solution: part a.

Dog:

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Wheel: the normal force and the weight of the disk act with a lever arm of zero so they have zero torque. Only the tension provides a torque.

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The tangential acceleration of the wheel at its edge must equal the acceleration of the dog, so we set equations for the acceleration of the wheel and the dog found above equal to each other and solve for T.

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