SOLUTION: There is a famous Ferris Wheel and it has a diameter of about 24m and rotates at a rate of 1 revolution every 32 seconds. The ride lasts for 192 seconds. The total height of the st

Question 1042625: There is a famous Ferris Wheel and it has a diameter of about 24m and rotates at a rate of 1 revolution every 32 seconds. The ride lasts for 192 seconds. The total height of the structure is 27m, as the wheel is 3 m off the ground.
A) Sketch a graph that would model your height above the ground in relation to time of ride. Assume you board the wheel at its lowest point.
B)If your friends had boarded before you, indicate on the graph where they might be at the start of the ride?
C) What if the Ferris wheel spun backward. How might that change your graph?
Thank you for looking at this, i have been trying to figure this out for days now.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
, then the
graph that describes the ride is a sine function.
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In order to always be positive and m above the t-axis
I add
to the sine function. Also, I multiply by to get
m peak to peak
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In order to get radians every sec, the
function has to be:

where = time of the ride in seconds
(A)
Here's the plot of this function for periods

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(B)
Here's my graph plus that of friends who boarded before me ( 1/8 of a rotation ahead )

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Hope this all makes sense -what I do piece it together
and force it to conform to the requirements

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