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Korolek [52]
3 years ago
13

Upper A 16​-foot ladder is leaning against a building. If the bottom of the ladder is sliding along the pavement directly away f

rom the building at 2 ​feet/second, how fast is the top of the ladder moving down when the foot of the ladder is 5 feet from the​ wall?

Physics
1 answer:
Sav [38]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The ladder is moving at the rate of 0.65 ft/s

Explanation:

A 16​-foot ladder is leaning against a building. If the bottom of the ladder is sliding along the pavement directly away from the building at 2 ​feet/second. We need to find the rate at which the top of the ladder moving down when the foot of the ladder is 5 feet from the​ wall.

The attached figure shows whole description such that,

x^2+y^2=256.........(1)

\dfrac{dx}{dt}=2\ ft/s

We need to find, \dfrac{dy}{dt} at x = 5 ft

Differentiating equation (1) wrt t as :

2x.\dfrac{dx}{dt}+2y.\dfrac{dy}{dt}=0

2x+y\dfrac{dy}{dt}=0

\dfrac{dy}{dt}=-\dfrac{2x}{y}

Since, y=\sqrt{256-x^2}

\dfrac{dy}{dt}=-\dfrac{2x}{\sqrt{256-x^2}}

At x = 5 ft,

\dfrac{dy}{dt}=-\dfrac{2\times 5}{\sqrt{256-5^2}}

\dfrac{dy}{dt}=0.65

So, the ladder is moving down at the rate of 0.65 ft/s. Hence, this is the required solution.

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