Comment on The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
protist@mander.xyz 11 months agoI summarized it above, there’s an extra rotation included when the outer circle moves along the inner circle, essentially falling a bit with every roll forward. If the outer circle rolled along a straight line of the same length as the circumference of the inner circle, it would only roll 3 times, but moving around the circle instead adds exactly one extra rotation. That other gent says this is used in calculating orbits too, where you’re also moving forward while constantly falling
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I read an article about it. Everybody is doing a shit job of describing what happens. The outer circle naturally makes a full rotation as it travels around the inner one, as the path it follows goes around a full 360°, so that counts as one of the rotations it ends up making, which is in addition to the 3 due to travel around the circumference.
OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world 11 months ago
thank you, that was the comment that explained it for me
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks for letting me know! It was too frustrating to not share.