The blades of a windmill turn on an axis that is 40 feet from the ground. The blades are 15 feet long and complete 3 rotations every minute. Write a sine model, y = asin(bt) + k, for the height (in feet) of the end of one blade as a function of time t (in seconds). Assume the blade is pointing to the right when t = 0 and that the windmill turns counterclockwise at a constant rate. a is the
length of the blade
The vertical shift, k, is the
height of the windmill