Alright so ceiling fans arent that popular anymore. My house doesnt have any so I got excited when there was one in my hotel room d: It also reminded me of our lab on centripetal acceleration and the skydancer toy. The toys wings started at its side and flew up. The only difference now is that the fan's planks are all already in the same plane rotating about the light in the middle. When i pulled the string the began to spin faster increasing angular velocity. They continue to spin because of Newton's First Law of Motion: and object in motion wants to stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. If one of the planks joint was to break it would fly off in a straight line tangent to the circular motion.
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