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What are the types of motion in a ceiling fan and its blade? Is it the same?

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No, the overall movement of a fan is different from the fan blades alone.
Ceiling fans as a whole "rotate" on its axis, so we can say they are doing rotational motion, whereas fan blades move in a circle with a fixed radius from the centre; thus, they are doing circular motion.

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