Merry-Go-Round
Classical Mechanics
Level
1
A merry-go-round has a radius of about \(8 \text{ m}\). A child sitting on a horse on the outer edge sees his parents, standing still at the entrance, every \(20 \text{ s}\). If the child's horse could break free of its merry-go-round restraints and continue forward tangentially without accelerating, how fast would it be traveling in \(\text{m}/\text{s}\)?
by
Matt DeCross