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Applications: Conservation of A Species

The document contains 17 math problems involving calculus concepts like derivatives, rates of change, gradients, and more. Some examples include finding the rate of growth of a whale population over time, calculating the velocity and maximum altitude of a rocket, determining how the cost of electricity changes with usage, and evaluating rates of change for physical scenarios like melting ice and expanding ripples in water.

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Applications: Conservation of A Species

The document contains 17 math problems involving calculus concepts like derivatives, rates of change, gradients, and more. Some examples include finding the rate of growth of a whale population over time, calculating the velocity and maximum altitude of a rocket, determining how the cost of electricity changes with usage, and evaluating rates of change for physical scenarios like melting ice and expanding ripples in water.

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Applications

1. Conservation of a Species: A group of marine biologists at the


Neptune Institute of Oceanography recommended that a series of con-
servation measures be carried out over the next decade to save a certain
species of whale from extinction. After implementing the conservation
measures, the population of this species is expected to be

N (t) = 3t3 + 2t2 2 − 10t + 600, 0 ≤ t ≤ 100

where N (t) denotes the population at the end of year t. Find the rate
of growth of the whale population when t = 2 and t = 6. How large will
the whale population be 8 years after implementing the conservation
measures?

2. Altitude of a Rocket: The altitude of a rocket (in feet) t seconds


into flight is given by

s = f (t) = −t3 + 96t2 + 195t5 , (t ≥ 0)

a). Find an expression for the rocketfs velocity at any time t.


b). Compute the rocketfs velocity when t = 0, 30, 50, 65, and 70. In-
terpret your results.
c). Using the results from the solution to part (b) and the observation
that at the highest point in its trajectory the rocket’s velocity is zero,
find the maximum altitude attained by the rocket.

3. Find gradient of the line y = 3x + 2.

4. A curve has parametric equation x = t, y = t2 . Find gradient of the


curve at t = 2.

5. Find equation of the tangent line to the ellipse at point 3x2 + 4y 2 = 12


at point (-1, 3/2).

6. The circumference C of a circle of radius r is given by C = 2πr. Find


dC
dr nd explain what does it means?

7. The growth of population in India in the first half of the twentieth


century was approximately linear, rising from 38 million in1900 to 48
million in 1950. Find an expression for the population P million of
people t years after 1900. Also, find dp/dt. What does it present?

8. The cost C of electricity consists of a standing charge 3.02 RS. and a


charge of 2.03 Rs. per unit of electricity used. Find the total cost C
in terms of the units t. Also, Find rate of change of C with respect to
t and explain what does it means?

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9. A cylindrical water heater is 95 cm high and has a cross sectional area
of 2700 cm2 . It is initially full of water. Water is run out so that the
height of the water in tank is reduced at the rate 15 cm per minute.
Find the expression for the height (h) and the volume of the water in
the tank at time (t). Also, Find dh/dt and dv/dt.

10. An ice cube is melting and at a time t hours it has the form of a cube
of side x cm and volume V cm3 . Find dVdx in terms of x. At what rate
volume is changing at x = 2?

11. A stone is dropped into a calm lake, sending out a series of concentric
ripples. If the radius of the outer ripple increases uniformly at the
rate of c cm per second, how rapidly is the disturbed area increasing
t seconds after the stone hits the water? Ans= 2πc2 t sq. ft per sec.

12. Find the rate at which the area of an equilateral triangle is increasing
when it is 10 in. on a side, if the length of each side is increasing at
the rate of 2 in/min.

13. A balloon which always remains spherical has a variable radius. Find
the rate at which volume is increasing with the radius when the latter
is 10 inches.

14. A circular cylinder of of radius r cm, height (h) cm and constant


volume 100 cm3 is being rolled in a machine to reduce the radius.
Write down the formula for h in terms of r. Find dh/dr.

15. If a path of a moving point is the sine curve

x = at, y = b sin at;

show that x− component of the velocity is constant and that the accel-
eration of the point at any instant varies as the distance from x-axis.

16. A particle starts at the origin in the plane and travels on the curve
√
y = x. If the x-coordinate of the particle increases at a uniform rate
of 16 units/sec, find the rate of increase of the y-coordinate 9 sec. after
the particle started from the origin.
√
17. A point moves in a fixed straight path so that s = t; show that the
acceleration is negative and proportional to the cube of velocity.

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