Sydney wants to ride a ferris wheel that has a radius of 60 feet and is suspended 10 feet above the ground. the wheel rotates at a rate of 2 revolutions every 6 minutes. (don’t worry about the distance the seat is hanging from the bar.) let the center of the wheel represents the origin of the axes.
a. write a function that describes a sydney’s height above the ground as a function of the number of seconds since she was ¼ of the way around the circle (at the 3 o’clock position).
b. how high is sydney after 1.25 minutes?
c. sydney’s friend got on after sydney had been on the ferris wheel long enough to move a quarter of the way around the circle. how would a graph of her friend’s ride compare to the graph of sydney’s ride? what would the equation for sydney’s friend be?