A ladder 20 feet long is leaning against the wall of a house…
A ladder 20 feet long is leaning against the wall of a house (see figure). The base of the ladder is pulled away from the wall at a rate of 2 feet per second. How fast is the top of the ladder moving down the wall when its base is 13 feet from the wall? Round your answer to two decimal places.
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An airplane flies at an altitude of 6 miles towards a point directly over an observer. Consider and as shown in the following figure. The speed of the plane is400 miles per hour. Find when miles. Round your answer to three decimal places.
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Suppose the table below shows the temperature at which a given liquid boils at selected pressures p (pounds per square inch). A model that approximates the data is . Find the rate of change of T with respect to p when . Round your answer to two decimal places. p 5 10 14.696 (1 atm) 20 30 40 60 80 100 T 327.43 404.29 448.84 485.71 536.18 573.59 629.02 670.61 704.38
Read DetailsIn a free-fall experiment, an object is dropped from a heigh…
In a free-fall experiment, an object is dropped from a height of 256 feet. A camera on the ground 500 feet from the point of impact records the fall of the object as shown in the figure. Assuming the object is released at time . At what time will the object reach the ground level?
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