My friends and I felt like being little kids again. So we went to the park and played on the merry go round! We spun my friend, who wasn't allowed to hang on to anything faster and faster, trying to throw her off. It was exactly like physics class! Because weight (mg down!) and normal force were equal and opposite, friction force was the only thing preventing her from flying off. It was also the centripital force (mass times veloicty squared all over radius). If the static coefficient remained constant, we just had to make the velocity high enough to overcome the friction force. We did! Thanks to physics, we had a good laugh. go physics!!
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