You walk around the outside of a merry-go-round that has a diameter of 10 ft, how far have you walked? please help! test due today.

No, you are going faster. The merry-go-round is rotating with uniform circular motion - that means that it rotates at a constant angular speed.

Now lets say your friend is a distance r from the centre which is also equal to the radius of her circular path and you are a distance R.

Distance travelled in one period:

Friend = 2*pi*r

You = 2*pi*R

which is the circumference of your respective circular paths.

Lets say that the time period of one complete circle is T:

Speed:

Friend= 2*pi*r/T

You= 2*pi*R/T

Now by the definition of angular speed

w=2*pi/T where w is the angular speed in radians/s

So this means that the speed is:

Friend= rw

You= Rw

Since you are circling with uniform circular motion w is the same for both of you meaning that the closer you are to the centre the slower your linear speed is.

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