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Exam 3: Topics in Deifferentiation
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Question 1
Essay
A kite is 150 feet high and is moving horizontally away from a boy at the rate of 25 feet per second. How fast is the string being paid out when the kite is 390 feet from him?
Question 2
Essay
If
, find
.
Question 3
Short Answer
A shark, looking for dinner, is swimming parallel to a straight beach and 80 feet offshore. The shark is swimming at the constant speed of 17 feet per second. At time t = 0, the shark is directly opposite a lifeguard station. How fast is the shark moving away from the lifeguard station when the distance between them is 170 feet?
Question 4
Essay
Use implicit differentiation to find
if xy = ln(x tan y).
Question 5
Short Answer
A metal cone contracts as it cools. Assume the height of the cone is 20cm and the radius at the base of the cone is 5cm. If the height of the cone is decreasing at 4.0 *10
-
5
cm per second, at what rate is the volume of the cone decreasing when its height is 18.8cm? (Assume the radius is held constant.)
Question 6
Essay
Find dy/dx by differentiating implicitly. xy = y
5
Question 7
True/False
Answer true or false. If y + ln(xy) = 9,
.
Question 8
Essay
Evaluate.
.
Question 9
Essay
Find the formula for dy if y = cot x.
Question 10
Multiple Choice
If x
2
+ y
2
= 33, find dy/dx.
Question 11
Essay
The magnetic force F acting on a particle is given by
, where r is the distance from the magnetic source and k is a constant. r is measured to be 2cm with a possible error of ±8%. Estimate the percentage error in F and r.
Question 12
True/False
Answer true or false. If y =
π
\pi
π
cos
x -
sin
x
,
.
Question 13
Essay
Find
if
.
Question 14
Multiple Choice
Gravitational force is inversely proportional to the distance between two objects squared. If F =
at a distance d = 2m, how fast is the force diminishing if the objects are moving away from each other at 0.1 m/s?
Question 15
Essay
Evaluate.
Question 16
Multiple Choice
The power in watts for a circuit is given by P = I
2
R. How fast is the power changing if the resistance, R, of the circuit is 1,400
Ω
\Omega
Ω
, the current, I, is 1.5A, and the current is decreasing with respect to time at a rate of 0.025 A/s. (Assume R is a constant.)
Question 17
True/False
Answer true or false. A circular spill is spreading so that when its radius r is 1 m, dr = 0.005 m. The corresponding change in the area covered by the spill, A, is, to the nearest hundredth of a square meter, 0.008 m
2
.