27. A man 6 ft. tall walks away from a lamp-post 10 ft. high at the rate of 4 miles an hour. How fast does the shadow of his head move? Ans. 10 miles an hour.
28. The rays of the sun make an angle of 30° with the horizon. A ball is thrown vertically upward to a height of 64 ft. How fast is the shadow of the ball moving along the ground just before it strikes the ground? Ans. 110.8 ft. per sec.
29. A ship is anchored in 18 ft. of water. The cable passes over a sheave on the bow 6 ft. above the surface of the water. If the cable is taken in at the rate of 1 ft. a second, how fast is the ship moving when there are 30 ft. of cable out? Ans. ft. per sec.
30. A man is hoisting a chest to a window 50 ft. up by means of a block and tackle. If he pulls in the rope at the rate of 10 ft. a minute while walking away from the building at the rate of 5 ft. a minute, how fast is the chest rising at the end of the second minute? Ans. 10.98 ft. per min.
31. Water flows from a faucet into a hemispherical basin of diameter 14 inches at the rate of 2 cu. in. per second. How fast is the water rising (a) when the water is halfway to the top? (b) just as it runs over? (The volume of a spherical segment = , where h = altitude of segment.)
32. Sand is being poured on the ground from the orifice of an elevated pipe, and forms a pile which has always the shape of a right circular cone whose height is equal to the radius of the base. If sand is falling at the rate of 6 cu. ft. per sec., how fast is the height of the pile increasing when the height is 5 ft.?
33. An aeroplane is 528 ft. directly above an automobile and starts east at the rate of 20 miles an hour at the same instant the automobile starts east at the rate of 40 miles an hour. How fast are they separating?
34. A revolving light sending out a bundle of parallel rays is at a distance of t a mile from the shore and makes 1 revolution a minute. Find how fast the light is traveling along the straight beach when at a distance of 1 mile from the nearest point of the shore. Ans. 15.7 miles per min.
35. A kite is 150 ft. high and 200 ft. of string are out. If the kite starts drifting away horizontally at the rate of 4 miles an hour, how fast is the string being paid out at the start? Ans. 2.64 miles an hour.
36. A solution is poured into a conical filter of base radius 6 cm. and height 24 cm. at the rate of 2 cu. cm. a second, and filters out at the rate of 1 cu. cm. a second. How fast is the level of the solution rising when (a) one third of the way up? (b) at the top? Ans. (a) .079 cm. per sec.; (b) .009 cm. per sec.
37. A horse runs 10 miles per hour on a circular track in the center of which is an arc light. How fast will his shadow move along a straight board fence (tangent to the track at the starting point) when he has completed one eighth of the circuit? Ans. 20 miles per hour.
38. The edges of a cube are 24 inches and are increasing at the rate of .02 in. per minute. At what rate is (a) the volume increasing? (b) the area increasing?
39. The edges of a regular tetrahedron are 10 inches and are increasing at the rate of .3 in. per hour. At what rate is (a) the volume increasing? (b) the area increasing?
40. An electric light hangs 40 ft. from a stone wall. A man is walking 12 ft. per second on a straight path 10 ft. from the light and perpendicular to the wall. How fast is the man's shadow moving when he is 30 ft. from the wall? Ans. 48 ft. per sec.
