A researcher at a rehabilitation facility is studying the use that a patient makes of a motorized wheelchair in a restricted area at the facility. The chair's motor is connected to the axle by a chain drive. Therefore both wheels turn at the same speed and the chair can travel only in a straight line. The patient can stop the chair, rotate the wheels, and thereby change the direction only while the wheelchair is stopped. To help monitor its usage, the chair is equipped with a compass, a clock, and a speedometer. A recording device records each time interval that the chair is in motion, the average speed during the time interval, and the compass bearing during the time interval. The compass is a standard compass in which 0° is north, 90° is east, and so forth.
A map of the restricted area is shown. The restricted area is a 200 ft by 400 ft rectangular area of the lawn. Patients enter the restricted area from the door of a building located on the southern edge of the restricted area. The door is at the center of the 400 ft southern boundary, as shown in the figure.
The recording device turns itself on when the patient enters the restricted area through the door and monitors the patient's movements for up to 1 hour. Time is measured in seconds from 0 to 3600, with time 0 being the time the patient initially enters the restricted area through the door. The device records 4 numbers to describe the motion of the wheelchair during any interval when the motor is in operation. The first two numbers give the time the motion begins and ends; the third number gives the speed during the time interval; and the fourth number gives the compass bearing during the time interval. (During each time interval the wheelchair maintains constant speed and bearing.) For example, the recorded line
10.6 15.9 2.8 274
would indicate that between times t1 = 10.6 and t2 = 15.9 seconds the wheelchair was traveling at speed of 2.8 ft/sec with compass bearing (direction) 274°. Times are recorded to 0.1 sec, speeds are recorded to 0.1 ft/sec, and bearings are recorded to a whole number of degrees.
Your job is to analyze the data from the wheelchair's recording device. Specifically, you must determine the following:
1)
Did the patient ever leave the restricted area? If so, determine the first time that the patient left the restricted area and determine at what point on the perimeter of the restricted area the wheelchair crossed out of the restricted area. If the patient did not leave the restricted area, what was the distance from the door to the farthest point the patient reached within the area?
2)
What was the total distance that the patient traveled?
For the purpose of answering these questions, use coordinates with the location (0,0) corresponding to the southwest corner of the restricted area and the location (400,200) corresponding to the northeast corner. Since the recorder switches on when the patient passes through the door, the position of the patient at time t = 0.0 is always (200,0). Patients will be traveling north when they enter the restricted area.