Hello again Tom from everystepcalculus.com everystepphysics.com. Related rates problems again regarding a cone or a cone shape, let me read it here one test problem, water is withdrawn from a conical reservoir 8 feet in diameter and 10 feet deep at the constant rate of 5 cubic feet per minute, how fast is the water level falling when the depth of the water in the reservoir is 6 feet? Let’s do it, index 8 to get to my menu then we are going to scroll, related rates is what we are looking for here and then we are going to choose cones number 4 now I haven’t choose the numbers here because I want the screen to be wide enough for you to see the problem properly so I’m just going to scroll down here to cones and what’s given is of course the volume, any time they give you cubic something its volume and then they give you the radius and the height so that’s what we are going to choose and we are finding dh/dt the changing height at a certain level etc. so choose that and have to pressing enter before you press anything in here entry lines alpha 5 feet per minute and its increasing its filling and it shows you what you have enter and you can change it if you want or say okay, the height is given as 10 alpha 10 say it’s okay and the radius is alpha 4 feet I say it’s okay, now we are trying to get rid of; we have r and h and the formula here this is the volume of a cone and we are trying to get so we can get one or the other and this is similar triangle; I don’t know what that means h/r=(10)/(4)=5/2 and so then r is what we use in algebra r=h/5/2 and so now we can substitute that in the formula here for r squared here it is here squared (h) we get (pie)(h) squared/ (75/4) (h) = (h)cubed * (pie)/ (75/4), we are going to differentiate with respect to the volume, time, and height so dV/dt=(h) squared * (pie)/ (25/4)(dh/dt) and they give is a certain height in the problem not radius so we are going to choose that and we are going to alpha 6 is what they give us, say it’s okay so now we are enter that in the (h) squared here (pie)/ (25/4)(dh/dt) =(18.1)(dh/dt) and we use the algebra (5.)/ (18.1) is dh/dt = .27631 (ft)/mn. Pretty neat ah, every step calculus.com go on my sight buy my programs you are going to enjoy them and you’ll have them for life in your calculator, you will throw your book away but you will never throw away your calculator with my programs because you can do it for your grandkids, your partner, your spouse and who ever in the future, somebody is going to run in calculus again in the future.
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