Homework Statement
In the Rotor Ride at the NM State Fair, passengers stand with their
backs to the wall in a giant rotating drum with a radius of 10 feet. The drum
is brought up to a speed of 33 1/3 RPM, and then the floor is lowered, leaving
the passengers suspended above a giant hole in the...
Homework Statement
The tumbler in an upright clothes dryer rotates at a critical angular
velocity so that clothes passing over the top briefly experience weightlessness.
If the radius of the drum is 0.30 m, what is this critical rotation rate? (Express
your answer in both radians per second...