SOLUTION: GENERAL: Building Swaying Modern skyscrapers are designed to bend in high winds. As a general rule, a 100 mile per hour wind can cause a tall building to bend by 0.002 radian. Find
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Question 1125310: GENERAL: Building Swaying Modern skyscrapers are designed to bend in high winds. As a general rule, a 100 mile per hour wind can cause a tall building to bend by 0.002 radian. Find the length of arc through which the 2717-foot-tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai (the tallest building in the world) would bend in such a wind. [Note: Because of back-and-forth motion, the swaying might be twice this great]
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The radius is the building height, so one radian is 2717 feet and 0.002 radian is 5.434 feet.
Both ways are double or 10.868 feet.
