Homework Help: trig question

Posted by Alice on Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 12:38am.

A Ferris wheel has a deameter of 50m. The platform at the bottom, where you load the ferris wheel, is 3 m above the ground. The Ferris wheel rotates three times every two minutes. A stopwatch is started and you notice you are even with the center of the ferris wheel, going down when the watch is at 4 seconds. write an equation that expreses your height as a function of elapsed time.

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trig question - Anonymous, Monday, July 18, 2011 at 10:01pm
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trig question - Ron, Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 9:06pm
h=28-25*sin((t-1/15)/(3pi))
t is in minutes
h is in meters

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