• themusicman@lemmy.world
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    For anyone still struggling with the intuition:

    How many times does a circle rotate if you roll it around a tiny dot? 1

    How many times does it rotate if you roll it around another circle the same size? Gotta be more than the dot, right?

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    One thing that helped me intuit the “sidereal” result (4) was to consider what happens as the radius of circle B approaches 0. At least in my mind, it seems pretty clear that A has to undergo at least one rotation.

    That said, I am unsure that I would have caught this as a test-taker. Derek’s videos always have some “trick”, putting me on guard, but in a testing scenario I would have seen the answer for 3 with no answer for 4, marked it down, and moved on quickly.

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    I would’ve never gotten that! I started getting lost trying to think about the differences in circumferences and radii before they mentioned the right or wrong answers

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      My only intuition was this: if you take two identical coins and rotate them together (like a pair of gears), it takes one rotation each to reach the starting point. If you now rotate your head along with one of the coins, it will appear standing still, while the other one will be rotating twice as fast.

      I still would have guessed the answer was 6, though. It took me awhile to figure out how extrapolate this model to a 3:1 ratio. As it turns out, it still works, and you get 4, but evidence of that was far from obvious to me.

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      I probably would have gotten four because I would have visually saw the answer without knowing the equation.

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    I’m proud to say that I got 4 as the answer in the beginning. HOWEVER, the options threw me off, which made me watch the rest of the video :(

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      I was like “Hum… That should do like more than 3.5, but 4 at maximum…”

      Then he shows options, and I was like “What ? There’s nothing between 3.5 and 4”; then thought about it a bit more, and found Exactly 4 as an answer; then continued to watch the end of the video to see why my calculations were wrong (they wer’nt)

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    VG video. Confused by the word ‘revolve’? How many times does the Earth ‘revolve’ around the Sun in a year?

    But, worse yet, there were THREE correct answers … none listed!

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    I did not watch this video but did read about this math. Visualize the larger circle unwrapped into a flat line, and the smaller circle sliding along the length of the line so its bottom point is fixed to the line. You’ll see the small circle never rotates. Now slide the small circle with a point fixed onto the large circle in the same way, and you’ll see the small circle makes one complete rotation. That rotation happens in addition to the rotations you get from dividing the larger circumference by the smaller circumference, so the answer is 4 in this case

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    So I’m confused. I saw this and initially thought it was just a matter of circumference. Suppose the radius of circle A is 10 and the radius of circle B is twice that amount, so it’s 20

    The formula to find the circumference of a circle is C = 2πr

    So for circle A;

    2π10 = 62.831

    And for circle B;

    2π20 = 125.663

    Then to find the difference in circumferences, divide them

    125.663/62.831 = 2.000

    Therefore, it should take two rotations to rotate one circle around the other

    What am I getting wrong here?