1st qn.Originally posted by lavastar:1)A train, starting at 1100 hours travels east at 75km/h while another , starting at noon from the same point, travels south at 100km/h. How fast are they seperating in 1500 hours?
2) A circular cylinder is expanding in such a way that at time t seconds, the length of the cylinder is 20x cm3 and the area of the cross section is x cm2. Given that when x=5, area of cross section is increasing at a rate 0.025 cm2/s. Find the rate of increase at this instant of the
a)length of cylinder
b)volume of cylinder
c)radius of cylinder
This question im unsure of what the length means( diameter or height ) .
Any help please? thx
I a bit busy to try... but do note that... one started at 1100 and the other started at 1200Originally posted by tanjun:1st qn.
lol. I can't get the ans. Anyway, this is how i can do. Any errors?
The first train travels east and the second train travels south. Imagine the first train as travelling to the right if North is in upward direction and so the second train will be travelling downwards.
Thus, it will look like a right angle triangle.
Speed at which they are separating = square root( 75^2 + 100^2)
= 125 km/h
means at 1500, they are both 300km from the starting pointOriginally posted by tanjun:dun really understand. Does the qn mean that they wan the speed of separation at 1500?

Your unit is wierd for your length of cylinder. Is it cm^3 or cm?Originally posted by lavastar:1)A train, starting at 1100 hours travels east at 75km/h while another , starting at noon from the same point, travels south at 100km/h. How fast are they seperating in 1500 hours?
2) A circular cylinder is expanding in such a way that at time t seconds, the length of the cylinder is 20x cm3 and the area of the cross section is x cm2. Given that when x=5, area of cross section is increasing at a rate 0.025 cm2/s. Find the rate of increase at this instant of the
a)length of cylinder
b)volume of cylinder
c)radius of cylinder
This question im unsure of what the length means( diameter or height ) .
Any help please? thx
take it as cm and try...Originally posted by tanjun:Your unit is wierd for your length of cylinder. Is it cm^3 or cm?
Given: L = 20x cm, A = x cm²Originally posted by lavastar:2) A circular cylinder is expanding in such a way that at time t seconds, the length of the cylinder is 20x cm³ and the area of the cross section is x cm². Given that when x=5, area of cross section is increasing at a rate 0.025 cm²/s. Find the rate of increase at this instant of the
a)length of cylinder
b)volume of cylinder
c)radius of cylinder
Let the train departing at 1100hrs be Train A, train departing at noon be Train B, s be the absolute displacement from the same origins at time t and x be the absolute seperation of the 2 trains at time t.Originally posted by lavastar:1)A train, starting at 1100 hours travels east at 75km/h while another , starting at noon from the same point, travels south at 100km/h. How fast are they seperating in 1500 hours?
huh... what doing you... How fast are they seperating in 1500 hours become their distance apart?Originally posted by ^tamago^:Let the train departing at 1100hrs be Train A, train departing at noon be Train B, s be the absolute displacement from the same origins at time t and x be the absolute seperation of the 2 trains at time t.
Given:
vA = 75km/h, east
vB = 100km/h, south
when t=4h, sA = vA × tA = 75km/h × 4h = 300km
when t=3h, sB = vB × tB = 100km/h × 3h = 300km
Since the 2 vectors of vA and vB are 90 degrees apart, by Pythagoras' theorem,
x² = (sA)² + (sB)² = 1.8 × 10^5 km²
x = 424km (3 s.f.)
oh. "how fast".Originally posted by eagle:huh... what doing you... How fast are they seperating in 1500 hours become their distance apart?
Btw.. I answered the question in a few lines just above, in that blur blur picture
ok la... I didn't expect many to see it... Last time I had the same problems too... This time... I took a while because I couldn't do it mentally, which I do usually in solving the questions here... Only when I draw out the diagrams, did I see the solution.Originally posted by tanjun:Yup. Didn't know need to use the idea of dx and dy over dt to find the speed of separation during 1500. Well done eagle.