Mistake Master
Mistake Master · AP Precalculus · Unit 3 · Step-Through Animation
The Wheel Draws Its Own Graph
You'll learnto pull a sine model out of a Ferris wheel by matching physical features to graph features.
A ferris wheel hands you every parameter you need, but each one is wearing a disguise. Watch one wheel turn and trace its own height graph, and the extraction table stops being something to memorise. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.
every number the wheel gives you is wearing a disguise
Before you start
What you're looking at
A ferris wheel with a rider on it, and an empty height-against-time graph beside it.
The question
Which measurement off the wheel becomes the amplitude, the midline and the period?