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They didn’t say anything about b’s movements.
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.
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?
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 :(
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)
