Last post for the year!~

The Ferris wheel in the picture above is Daikanransha in Palette Town, which is in Odaiba, Japan ^___^

My family and I rode in the Ferris wheel a few years ago ~  Since the Ferris wheel moves in uniform circular motion, it has a constant net force directed radially inward.  The Ferris wheel moves with constant speed, but its velocity is constantly changing.  At the top of the Ferris wheel, the normal force of the car on the metal arm subtracted from the combined weight of the car and its passengers is the magnitude of this net force.  At the bottom, the weight subtracted from the normal force is the net force.  Normal force is greater at the bottom of the wheel.  The ride takes 16 minutes, and the Ferris wheel has a diameter of 100 m, which means the wheel rotates 0.375 °/s, or 0.327 m/s.  (Thanks, Matt, for this blog idea.)

Estrellita ~ ★

It would be pretty cool if we had something here like The BBC Proms… “an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually” …  *0*