Now I just need the angular speed. Here is a plot of the angular velocity for half a revolution (from Tracker Video Analysis).. This is a fairly constant angular speed of 1.498 radians/sec with a ...

Consider the mechanism shown below, where link AB is rotating in the counter clockwise sense with a constant angular speed of ω AB. An animation of this motion is shown below. Plots for the angular ...

When you (or whoever) steps off the merry go round, you still have angular momentum even though you are not moving in a circle. Really. If you are moving in a straight line, you could think of ...