On the East Coast college tour a year ago, I saw this enormous Les Paul sign at Reading Terminal, Pennsylvania, and I just had to take a picture of it because I love guitars.
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| Strings and all. |
The guitar undergoes uniform circular motion, which means that an ant standing on one of the tuners would experience less centrifugal force than one hanging on to the widest part of the guitar body. Also, the guitar experiences torque as it rotates (there is probably a bar going across the rotational axis to turn it). However, it must take a pretty strong motor to turn this massive guitar - and it was going at a surprisingly high angular velocity - and keep it rotating for the time the Hard Rock is open.
When I asked my friend Dylan, another guitar aficionado, he declared that the motor was powered by rock and roll, which makes perfect physics sense.
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| That guitar kind of looks like mine, too. |
