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Sine and Cosine Functions - Exam Style Questions

This document contains 14 multi-part questions about sine and cosine functions and their applications to modeling rotating objects like wind turbine blades and clock hands. The questions involve calculating maximum and minimum values, periods, amplitudes, probabilities, angles, distances, heights, and areas for various situations involving rotating objects modeled with trigonometric functions of time or angle. Sketches and diagrams are provided to illustrate the situations described in each question.

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Sine and Cosine Functions - Exam Style Questions

This document contains 14 multi-part questions about sine and cosine functions and their applications to modeling rotating objects like wind turbine blades and clock hands. The questions involve calculating maximum and minimum values, periods, amplitudes, probabilities, angles, distances, heights, and areas for various situations involving rotating objects modeled with trigonometric functions of time or angle. Sketches and diagrams are provided to illustrate the situations described in each question.

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Sine and Cosine functions – Exam style questions

1. (6 marks)

2. (6 marks)
3. (14 marks)
4. (20 marks)
5a. [1 mark]
A wind turbine is designed so that the rotation of the blades generates electricity. The turbine is built on
horizontal ground and is made up of a vertical tower and three blades.
The point A is on the base of the tower directly below point B at the top of the tower. The height of the
tower, AB, is 90 m . The blades of the turbine are centred at B and are each of length 40 m . This is shown in
the following diagram.

The end of one of the blades of the turbine is represented by point C on the diagram. Let h be the height
of C above the ground, measured in metres, where h varies as the blade rotates.
Find the
maximum value of h .
5b. [1 mark]
minimum value of h .
5c. [1 mark]
The blades of the turbine complete 12 rotations per minute under normal conditions, moving at a constant
rate.
Find the time, in seconds, it takes for the blade [BC ] to make one complete rotation under these
conditions.
5d. [2 marks]
Calculate the angle, in degrees, that the blade [BC ] turns through in one second.
5e. [1 mark]
The height, h , of point C can be modelled by the following function. Time, t , is measured from the instant
when the blade [BC ] first passes [ AB] and is measured in seconds.
h ( t )=90−40 cos ( 72 t ) , t ≥ 0

Write down the amplitude of the function.


5f. [1 mark]
Find the period of the function.
5g. [3 marks]
Sketch the function h ( t ) for 0 ≤ t ≤ 5, clearly labelling the coordinates of the maximum and minimum points.
5h. [2 marks]
Find the height of C above the ground when t=2.
5i. [3 marks]
Find the time, in seconds, that point C is above a height of 100 m, during each complete rotation.
5j. [3 marks]
Looking through his window, Tim has a partial view of the rotating wind turbine. The position of his
window means that he cannot see any part of the wind turbine that is more than 100 m above the ground.
This is illustrated in the following diagram.

At any given instant, find the probability that point C is visible from Tim’s window.
5k. [2 marks]
The wind speed increases. The blades rotate at twice the speed, but still at a constant rate.
At any given instant, find the probability that Tim can see point C from his window. Justify your answer.
6a. [2 marks]
The diagram below shows a circular clockface with centre O . The clock’s minute hand has a length of 10 cm
. The clock’s hour hand has a length of 6 cm .
At 4 :00 pm the endpoint of the minute hand is at point A and the endpoint of the hour hand is at point B.

 
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Find the size of angle A O B in degrees.

6b. [3 marks]
Find the distance between points A and B.
6c. [2 marks]
Between 4 : 00 pm and 4 :13 pm, the endpoint of the minute hand rotates through an angle, θ , from point
A to point C . This is illustrated in the diagram.

Find the size of angle θ in degrees.


6d. [2 marks]
Calculate the length of arc AC .
6e. [2 marks]
Calculate the area of the shaded sector,  AOC .
6f. [1 mark]
A second clock is illustrated in the diagram below. The clock face has radius 10 cm with minute and hour
hands both of length 10 cm. The time shown is 6 :00 am. The bottom of the clock face is located 3 cm above
a horizontal bookshelf.

Write down the height of the endpoint of the minute hand above the bookshelf at 6 :00 am.
6g. [2 marks]
The height, h centimetres, of the endpoint of the minute hand above the bookshelf is modelled by the
function
h ( θ ) =10 cos θ+13 , θ≥ 0 ,

where θ is the angle rotated by the minute hand from 6 :00 am.
Find the value of h when θ=160.
6h. [1 mark]
The height, g centimetres, of the endpoint of the hour hand above the bookshelf is modelled by the
function

g ( θ )=−10 cos ( 12θ )+13 ,θ ≥ 0 ,


where θ is the angle in degrees rotated by the minute hand from 6 :00 am.
Write down the amplitude of g ( θ ).
6i. [2 marks]
The endpoints of the minute hand and hour hand meet when θ=k .
Find the smallest possible value of k .

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