Help:You sit at the outer rim of a Ferris wheel that rotates at 2 revolutions per minute (RPM). What would your rotational speed be if you were instead clinging to a position halfway from the center to the outer rim?

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anonymous · Answer

All points on the Ferris wheel share the same rotational speed, as they all make 2 revolutions per minute. What differs is their tangential speed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_speed

anonymous · Answer

Is that the answer to the question?

anonymous · Answer

Think about it like a record on a record player. Put a trinket on a random spot on the record player, and then trace a line through the center to the outer rim. If you put trinkets everywhere along that line, they all complete a rotation at the same time, right?

anonymous · Answer

Also they have a subforum for physics which would be better suited to answering physics questions.

isaiah.feynman · Answer

Mathematicians can handle this. ;)

anonymous · Answer

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anonymous · Answer

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jack1 · Answer

hi @fashionlove please close off this question and instead open any new questions on the left
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