The unexpectedly hard windmill question (2011 IMO, Q2)

The famous (infamous?) "windmill" problem on the 2011 IMO

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The author of this problem was Geoff Smith. You can find the full list of problems considered for the IMO that year, together with their solutions, here:

You can find data for past IMO results here:

Viewer-created interactive about this problem:

And another:

I made a quick reference to "proper time" as an example of an invariant. Take a look at this minutephysics video if you want to learn more.

Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations

Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld

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These animations are largely made using manim, a scrappy opensource python library

If you want to check it out, I feel compelled to warn you that it's not the most well-documented tool, and it has many other quirks you might expect in a library someone wrote with only their own use in mind.

Music by Vincent Rubinetti.

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