Warm Up

The Ladder
The foot of a ladder is slipping away from a wall at a constant rate. Does the top of the
ladder slip down the wall at a constant rate? Discuss!
The Balloon
Air is escaping at a constant rate from the balloon. Draw a sketch of how the radius
changes with respect to time.
Setting up the Problem
Rate of Change of Volume
Water is flowing from a tap at a constant rate. It takes 2 minutes for a cube !cm by !
cm by !cm to be fille "see #ideo$ #ol%of%cube&.
'ketch a graph of the #olume of the water in the cone #s time.
(alculate the rate of change of #olume
dV
dt



.
Experimental Evidence
The same tap is left running and is used to fill a cone "the radius if the cone is half its
height&.
Discuss what happens to the rate of change of the height of the cone as the cone fills.
Is the rate of change of height increasing at a constant rate?
Connected rate of Change Ref!
Draw a sketch of
dh
dt
against time.
)sing the #ideo "cone& estimate the rate of change of height of the cone when the height
is *cm by noting the time taken for the height to increase from * to +cm "Top Tip, -ou
can slow the #ideo down and get more accurate measurements for the time taken&.
(ompare this to the rate of change of height when the height is .cm.
Are these estimates like to be o#er estimates or under estimates?
Theor"
Write a formula for the #olume/ 0 of the cone in terms of h only.
1ind
dV
dh
1rom the chain rule we know that
dV dV dh
dt dh dt
=
1ind an formula for
dh
dt
.
Is the rate of change of height increasing at a constant rate?
)se this to find
dh
dt
when h 2 *cm and when h 2 .cm.
(ompare these #alues to the e3perimental e#idence.
)se technology to plot a graph of
dh
dt
#s t and compare this to the sketch you drew
earlier.