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(1) A camera is accidentally knocked off a ledge of a cliff 400 ft heigh.

The camera falls


a distance of s = 16t 2 feet in t seconds.
(a) How long does the cameral fall before it hits the ground?
(b) What is the average velocity at which the cameral falls during the last 2 seconds?
(c) What is the instantaneous velocity of the cameral when it hits the ground?
(2) A particle is fired straight up from the ground it reaches a height of s feet in t
seconds, where s = 128t - 16t 2 .
(a) Find the velocity v at time t .
(b) How much time is required for the projectile to reach its maximum height?
(c) What is the maximum height?
(d) What is the velocity when the projectile hits the ground?
(3) A point moves along a straight line such a way that after t seconds, its distance from
the origin is s = 2t 2 + 3t metres.
(a) Find the average velocity between t = 3 and t = 6 seconds.
(b) Find the instantenous velocity when t = 3 and t = 6 seconds.
(4) The cost (in Rupees) of producing units of a certain commodity is
C (x)= 1000 + 10x + 0.1x2
(a) Find the average rate of change of C with respect to x when production level is
changed from x = 100 to x = 101 .
(b) Find the instantaneous rate of change of C with respect to x when x = 100 .
(5) The volume of cube of side of length x is v = x 3 . Find the rate of change of the
volume with respect to x when x = 5 cm.
(6) Supposed that the mass (in kilogram) of a thin rod of length x (in metres) is given by
f (x) = 3 x . Then what is the rate of change of mass with respect to length x
(density) when x = 3 and x = 7 metres.
(7) A television camera at ground level is filming the lift-off of a space shuttle that is
rising vertically according to the position equation s = 25t 2 , where s is measured in
metres and t is measured in seconds. The camera is 500 m from the launch pad. Find
the rate of change in the angle of elevation of the camera at 10 seconds after lift-off.
(8) A stone is dropped into a pond causing ripples in the form of concentric circles. The
radius r of the outer ripple is increasing at a constant rate at 2 cm/sec. When the
radius is 5 cm, at what rate is the total area A of the disturbed water changing?
(9) An airplane is flying on a flight path 12 km above the ground and that will take it
directly over a radar tracking station. If the distance between the radar and the flight is
decreasing at a rate 200 kmph, when the distance between them is 10 km, what is the
speed of the plane?
(10) A ladder 17 m long is leaning against the wall. The base of the ladder is pulled
away from the wall at a rate of 5 m/s. When the base of the ladder is 8 m from the
wall,
(a) How fast is the top of the ladder moving down the wall?
(b) At what rate is the area of the triangle formed by the ladder, wall and ground changing
then?
(c) Find the rate at which the angle between the top of the ladder and the wall of the
house changing?
(11) A police jeep, approaching a right-angled intersection from the north, is
changing a speeding car that has turned the corner and is now moving straight east.
When the jeep is 3 km north of the intersection and the car is 4 km to the east, the
police determine with radar that the distance between them and the car is increasing at
20 kmph. If the jeep is moving at 60 kmph at the instant of the measurement, what is
the speed of the car?
(12) The length l of a rectangle is decreasing at the rate 3 cm/sec while the breadth
b is increasing at the rate 3 cm/sec. When l = 12 cm and b = 5 cm, find the rate of
change of
(a) the area
(b) the perimeter
(c) the length of the diagonals of the rectangle.
(d) Which of these are decreasing and which are increasing?

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