Answer to Question #273796 in Civil and Environmental Engineering for mhaey

Question

suppose the lowest point of a Ferris wheel is 2 meters off the ground, and its radius is 12m. Starting at the lowest point, it makes one complete revolution every 3o seconds. Find a cosine function that gives the height above the ground of a riding child in terms of the time t in second

Answer 1

The answer with the given table and values are given below :

the lowest point of a Ferris wheel is 1.5 meters o↵ the ground, and its radius is 15

m. It makes one complete revolution every 30 seconds. Starting at the lowest point, find a

cosine function that gives the height above the ground of a riding child in terms of the time

t in seconds