Fascinating Frequencies 5

You will need to use physics for this Fascinating Frequencies challenge.

An interesting device can be created when you have a wheel of gears. Of course, this wheel will have an even number of gears. If the device is anchored and you spin one gear, the others will all also spin at the same frequencies. But if you anchor the gear you spin, the others can spin around it. Try building this device yourself, it’s very cool. Say you make one of these devices with six gears. The radius of each gear is 10 centimetres, and the centripetal force felt by the gear opposite to the anchored one you are spinning is 1 metre per second squared. The challenge is to find what frequency the gear is spinning.

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