Entry Twenty-Three: You spin me right round . . .

The Iolani Fair (Cruisin' the Caribbean) was full of fun games, outrageous rides, good music, and a buttload of food. I spent a good deal of the fair working for the malasada booth, but walked around a lot selling bags of the Portuguese treats. There was a lot of physics involved, for sure. There was one ride that was kind of like a merry-go-round or swing thing, and it perfectly illustrated the concept of circular motion. The person sitting in one of the booths was traveling in a circle, but while their velocity was not changing, they were accelerating because their direction was changing. Basically, it's all about the F=mv^2/R. That's the force on that person baby. I'm tired. Good NIght.