In a Ferris wheel, the circle is used as the main shape of the ride and makes the ride continuous. A circle is special and useful in this situation in the aspect that all the carts are equally distant from the center point and the wheel rotates 360 degrees. The second picture shows a slide from one of the rides in Star City that when it was built, people calculated the right slope in order to give excitement to the riders but not that much for safety. The concept of slope was used then.
Trigonometric Functions are used to “solve” or think of a solution to everyday life problems even though we don’t see them all. For example, the picture above shows a sketch that we can solve by using trigonometry. There are many other examples like:
a. Hula Hoop-concept of tangents is used. Every time it rotates one side…
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