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    Find the critical rotation rate

    Well we care about the acceleration of ω right?
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    Find the critical rotation rate

    You get weightlessness when g=0
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    Analyzing Forces in the Rotor Ride at the State Fair

    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...
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    Find the critical rotation rate

    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...