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dmitriy555 [2]
3 years ago
7

A spotlight on the ground shines on a wall 12 m away. If a man 2 m tall walks from the spotlight toward the building at a speed

of 1.7 m/s, how fast is the length of his shadow on the building decreasing when he is 4 m from the building?

Physics
1 answer:
mafiozo [28]3 years ago
4 0

Answer:

0.6375 m/s

Explanation:

Let x be the distance of the man from the building

from the figure attached

initially the value of x=12

Given:

\frac{dx}{dt}=-1.7m/s

where the negative sign depicts that the distance of the man from the building is decreasing.

Now, Let The length of the shadow be = y

we have to calculate \frac{dy}{dt} when x=4

from the similar triangles

we have,

\frac{2}{12-x}=\frac{y}{12}    

or

y=\frac{24}{12-x}

Differentiating with respect to time 't' we get

\frac{dy}{dt}=-\frac{24}{12-x}^2\frac{-dx}{dt}

or

\frac{dy}{dt}=\frac{24}{12-x}^2\frac{dx}{dt}

Now for x = 4, and \frac{dx}{dt}=-1.7m/s  we have,

\frac{dy}{dt}=\frac{24}{12-4}^2\times (-1.7)

or

\frac{dy}{dt}=-0.6375m/s

<u>here, the negative sign depicts the decrease in length and in the question it is asked the decreasing rate  thus, the answer is </u><u>0.6375m/s</u>

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