Originally Posted by
SKY-217
Spinning IS accelerating.
Acceleration is any change in speed or direction. So more spokes would make a difference. Still, I don't have the experience or math skills to say whether that difference is significant, just that it exists.
Spinning is a stable state, you don't have to put energy into a wheel to make it keep spinning (except for air resistance, which is not what we're talking about here). In a vacuum, you can spin a wheel and come back 100 years later and it'll still be spinning.
Yes, something that's spinning is always accelerating, but it uses its own kinetic energy to do so.