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- Jenny boards a Ferris wheel at the bottom.
- Each rule gives the height h, in meters, of a car on a steadily turning wheel t minutes after a clock starts.
- A Ferris wheel of diameter 50 meters has its hub 28 meters above the ground and turns once every 10 minutes.
- A wheel of radius r with its hub at height k turns steadily, once every T minutes.
- A farm windmill has three long blades, evenly spaced, on a hub 12 meters above the ground.
- An observation wheel has 36 gondolas evenly spaced around a rim of diameter 60 meters, and its hub is 33 meters above the ground.
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- 4.1Periodic functions
- 4.2Graphing sine and cosine
- 4.3Amplitude and reflection
- 4.4Finding the period from the equation
- 4.5Phase shift
- 4.6Midline and vertical shift
- 4.7Writing an equation from a wave
- 4.8Graphing tangent and the reciprocal functions
- 4.9Inverse trig functions
- 4.10Composing trig and inverse trig functions
- 4.11Height on a turning wheel
- 4.12Tides, daylight and sound
- 4.13Simple harmonic motion