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Tidal Wave Project tutorials

Author: Chris Melograna

Retrieving the Raw Data from the Website

Filling out T chart

This tutorial will show you how to take the information from your printout from the website and put it into T-chart by converting your times for the x-values (raw data) and putting in your high/low tides for the y values.

Deriving your Cosine Equation

This tutorial will show you how to use the information from your T-chart to come up with your Cosine equation which models your high/low tides from the place you researched.

Finding Max and Min values from your Cosine equation

This tutorial shows you how to find the max and min values from your Cosine equation by using the TI Nspire.