1. All edges of a cube are expanding at a rate of 6 cm/sec.
How fast is the
volume of the cube changing when each edge is 10 cm?
2. A balloon rises at a rate of 10 feet per second from a point on the
ground 100 feet from an observer. Find the ra te of change of the angle of
elevation of the balloon from the observer when the balloon is 100 feet above
the ground.
Given:
Find:
3. A circle is inscribed in a square as shown in the figure below. The
circumference of the circle is increasing at a rate of 6 inches per second. As the
circle expands, the square expands to maintain the condition of tangency.
a. Find the rate at which the perimeter of the square is
increasing, make sure to use correct units.
b. At the instant when the area of the circle is 25π square inches,
find the rate of increase in the area enclosed between the circle and
the square.
4. A point is moving along the graph of y=x 2 +1 so that it’s x-coordinate is
increasing at a constant rate of 2 cm/sec. Find the rate at which its distance
from the origin is changing when x=−1, x=3
1. A student walks away from a streetlight at a constant rate of 3 ft/sec. She is
5 ft tall and the streetlight is 12 feet above the ground. At what rate is the length of
her shadow changing at the instant she is 10 feet
from the base of the streetlight?
Given:
Find:
2. Water is draining from an inverted conical tank at a
constant rate of 10 ft3/min. If the tank is 8 ft across the top
and 10 ft deep, find the rate at which the depth of the tank is
changing when the water is 5 ft deep.
Given:
Find:
3. A man is standing 5 miles north of an intersection of roads that run north-south
and east-west. He sees a car pass through the intersection at a rate of 40mph
headed east.
a. When the car is 12 miles east of the intersection, at what rate will the
distance (as the crow flies) between the man and car be changing?
b. At what rate will the area of the triangle formed by the north-south
road, east-west road, and the distance as the crow flies between the man and
car be changing at the same moment?
5. A ten foot ladder is slipping down the wall. How far is the foot of
the ladder from the wall at the moment when the foot of the ladder is
moving along the ground half as fast as the top of the ladder is moving
down the wall?
6. A softball diamond is in the shape of a square with 60 ft sides. A
player is running from 2nd to 3rd base at a speed of 25 ft/sec. At what 2nd
rate is the player’s distance from home changing when they are 20
ft from 3rd base?
3rd s 1st
home
7. A trough is 12 feet long and 3 feet across at the top. Its ends are isosceles
triangles with an altitude of 3 feet. Water is being pumped into the
trough at 2 cubic feet per minute. How fast is the water level rising 3 feet
when the water is 1 foot deep?
12 feet
3 feet
8. The path of two runners cross at a stop sign. One runner is heading
south at a constant rate of 6.5 miles per hour while the other runner is
heading west at a constant rate of 7 miles per hour. How fast is the distance
between them changing after 10 minutes?
9. If one leg AB of a right triangle increases at the rate of 2 inches per
second, while the other leg AC decreases at 3 inches per second, find how
fast the hypotenuse is changing when AB = 6 inches and AC = 8 inches.
1. A patrol car is parked 50 feet from a long warehouse. The revolving light on
the top of the car turns at a rate of 30 revolutions per minute. Find the speed at
which the light beam seems to be moving along the wall when the beam makes a
angle with the line perpendicular to the wall.
50 feet
x
overhead view for #6
2. The length of an elastic cord is 40cm and the radius of the circular cross-
section of the cord is ½ a cm.
a. What is the volume of the cord?
b. As the cord stretches, the volume remains the same. If the cord is
being stretched at a constant rate of 10 inches per minute, at what rate is the
radius changing one minute after the stretching begins. Indicate units of
measure.
3. A ladder 13 feet long is leaning against the wall of a house. The base of
the ladder is being pulled away from the wall at a constant rate of 2 feet per
second. Find the acceleration of the top of the ladder when the base of the
ladder is 5 feet from the wall.
4. A man walks across a stage at a speed of 4 feet/second. A spotlight is
located on the ground 20 feet from the stage. At what rate is the spotlight
rotating (in revolutions per second) when the man is 15 feet from the point on
the stage closest to the spotlight?
5. A swimming pool is 40 feet long, 20 feet wide, 4 feet deep at the shallow
end, and 9 feet deep at the deep end. Water is pumped into the pool at 10 cubic
feet per minute.
a. What percentage of the pool is filled when there is 4 feet of
water at the deep end?
b. At that moment, how quickly is the level rising?
6. A right circular cone and a hemisphere have the same base, and the cone is
inscribed in the hemisphere as shown in the figure below. The figure is expanding
in such a way that the combined surface are of the hemisphere and its base is
increasing at a constant rate of 18 square inches per second. At what rate is the
volume of the cone changing at the instant when the radius of the common base is
4 inches?
Note: Surface area S of a sphere of radius r is S=4 π r 2 and the volume V of a
1 2
right circular cone of height h and base radius r is V = 3 π r h
