The tangential speed at the outer rim of a Ferris wheel is 8 m/s. What is the tangential speed a position halfway from the center of the outer rim.
The tangential speed at any point on a rotating object is proportional to the radial distance from the center of rotation. If the tangential speed at the outer rim of the Ferris wheel is 8 m/s, then the tangential speed at a position halfway from the center of the outer rim would be half of that, or 4 m/s.
Therefore, the tangential speed at a position halfway from the center of the outer rim is 4 m/s.