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A uniform piece of wire \(A B C\), of mass \(2 m\) and length \(4 a\), is bent into two straight equal portions, \(A B\) and \(B C\), which are at right angles to each other, as shown in Figure 1. The wire rotates freely in a vertical plane about a fixed smooth horizontal axis \(L\) which passes through \(A\) and is perpendicular to the plane of the wire.
- Show that the moment of inertia of the wire about \(L\) is \(\frac { 20 m a ^ { 2 } } { 3 }\)
- By writing down an equation of rotational motion for the wire as it rotates about \(L\), find the period of small oscillations of the wire about its position of stable equilibrium.