
Calculus For The Life Sciences
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Author: GREENWELL, Raymond N., RITCHEY, Nathan P., Lial, Margaret L.
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Chapter 6.4, Problem 35E
Rotating Lighthouse The beacon on a lighthouse 50 m a straight shoreline rotates twice per minutes. (See the figure.)
a. How fast is the beam moving along the shoreline at the moment when the light beam and the shoreline are at right angles? Find an equation relating θ, the angle between the beam of light and the line from the lighthouse to the shoreline, and x, the distance along the shoreline from the point on the shoreline closest to the lighthouse and the point where the beam hits the shoreline. You need to express dθdt in radians per minute.)
b. In part a, how fast is the beam moving along the shoreline when the beam hits the shoreline 50 m from the point on the shoreline closest to the lighthouse?
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