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Saturday, 30 November 2019
Waterwheel at Llanberis Slate Museum
It took 45 seconds for the wheel to complete one full turn. The diameter is 15.4 metres. That means the rim has a linear velocity of 2*pi*r/T = 1.1 metres per second. It all seemed to be moving so slowly but that is the speed of the a fast sprinter.
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