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Drawbridge.
Drawbridge.

41. The approach to a drawbridge has a gate whose two arms rotate about the same axis as shown in the figure. The arm over the driveway is 4 yards long and the arm over the footwalk is 3 yards long. Both arms rotate at the rate of 5 radians per minute. At what rate is the distance between the extremities of the arms changing when they make an angle of 45° with the horizontal? Ans. 24 yd. per min.

42. A conical funnel of radius 3 inches and of the same depth is filled with a solution which filters at the rate of 1 cu. in. per minute. How fast is the surface falling when it is 1 inch from the top of the funnel? Ans. in. per mm.

43. An angle is increasing at a constant rate. Show that the tangent and sine are increasing at the same rate when the angle is zero, and that the tangent increases eight times as fast as the sine when the angle is 60°.