How Many Turns?
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When a disk of radius rolls without slipping along a straight line, it turns times, where is the distance traveled by the disk. When this disk rolls on the inside or outside of a circle where the point of contact again travels the distance , it does not turn the same number of times.
Contributed by: Bernard Vuilleumier (December 2020)
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