Explore Ferris Wheel Trigonometry

APPLICATION OF TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS[br][br]PART 1: EXPLORE[br][br]-With your group members, move/change the sliders to explore different characteristics of the Ferris Wheel. [br][br]- Click on " Run Ferris Wheel". What do you notice ? What do you wonder?[br][br]PART 2: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ON THE HANDOUT[br][br][br][br][br]RESOURCE/CREDIT:[br]This is an updated version of my ferris wheel applet... Now with dual screen. :)[br][br]This is a demonstration of a ferris wheel I created in GeoGebra designed to inspire and motivate my students to learn about trigonometric transformations. Dr. Gail Kaplan's lesson plan, Trigonometry Through a Ferris Wheel, inspired me to create this applet. [url=http://www.nctm.org/publications/arti]http://www.nctm.org/publications/arti[/url]... [br][br]When the "run ferris wheel" button is pressed, the ferris wheel will complete two cycles. The red point will generate an x and y coordinate about 6 times a second, where x is time and y is height. All of these points together should form a wave function. Can you figure out what that wave function is?[br][br]Thanks to @mathhombre for inspiring me to make this applet dual screen, and thank you GeoGebra community for answering all my questions that helped me to develop this apple

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