‘Round ‘n’ ‘Round We Go!
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New attractions—including Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, Atlanta History Center, World of Coca-Cola, and SkyView Ferris wheel—have made Atlanta, Georgia, a destination city. SkyView is one of the top five attractions for Atlanta tourists (see photographs 1 and 2). This Ferris wheel sits 200 feet tall and contains 42 climate-controlled gondolas, each of which can hold a maximum of six people. We can analyze and identify many mathematical features of this attraction that will lead us to a discussion of circumference, angles of polygons, the parametric form of conic sections, periodic functions, and related rates.
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Malcom Devoe, mdevoe@westga.edu, is a mathematics professor at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Georgia. Devoe's current research focuses on the implementation of Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) environments for advance undergraduate and graduate computational and applied mathematics courses such as vector analysis, differential equations, and mathematical biology and its effects on student learning.
