Modeling the Length of Day: Example
The following is another example using sinusoidal functions in modeling the length of any given day in an area of the world.
The length of a day in Cleveland, OH is given by the sinusoidal function:
f(t) is the number of hours of daylight on any given day of the year, t.
How many hours of daylight are there on the 10th day of the year?
If t =10:
There are approximately 9.7 hours of daylight on the 10th day of the year in Cleveland, OH.