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For the following exercises, solve each problem.
[T] A chain hangs from two posts m apart to form a catenary described by the equation Find the slope of the catenary at the left fence post.
[T] A chain hangs from two posts four meters apart to form a catenary described by the equation Find the total length of the catenary (arc length).
[T] A high-voltage power line is a catenary described by Find the ratio of the area under the catenary to its arc length. What do you notice?
A telephone line is a catenary described by Find the ratio of the area under the catenary to its arc length. Does this confirm your answer for the previous question?
Prove the formula for the derivative of by differentiating ( Hint: Use hyperbolic trigonometric identities.)
Prove the formula for the derivative of by differentiating
( Hint: Use hyperbolic trigonometric identities.)
Prove the formula for the derivative of by differentiating ( Hint: Use hyperbolic trigonometric identities.)
Prove that
Prove the expression for Multiply by and solve for Does your expression match the textbook?
Prove the expression for Multiply by and solve for Does your expression match the textbook?
True or False? Justify your answer with a proof or a counterexample.
The amount of work to pump the water out of a half-full cylinder is half the amount of work to pump the water out of the full cylinder.
False
If the force is constant, the amount of work to move an object from to is
The disk method can be used in any situation in which the washer method is successful at finding the volume of a solid of revolution.
False
If the half-life of is ms, then
For the following exercises, use the requested method to determine the volume of the solid.
The volume that has a base of the ellipse and cross-sections of an equilateral triangle perpendicular to the Use the method of slicing.
from rotated around the y -axis using the washer method
rotated around the x -axis using cylindrical shells
For the following exercises, find
Below and above
Find the mass of on a disk centered at the origin with radius
Find the center of mass for on
Find the mass and the center of mass of on the region bounded by and
Mass: center of mass:
For the following exercises, find the requested arc lengths.
The length of for from
For the following exercises, find the surface area and volume when the given curves are revolved around the specified axis.
The shape created by revolving the region between and rotated around the y -axis.
The loudspeaker created by revolving from to around the x -axis.
Volume: surface area:
For the following exercises, consider the Karun-3 dam in Iran. Its shape can be approximated as an isosceles triangle with height m and width m. Assume the current depth of the water is m. The density of water is kg/m
Find the total force on the wall of the dam.
You are a crime scene investigator attempting to determine the time of death of a victim. It is noon and outside and the temperature of the body is You know the cooling constant is When did the victim die, assuming that a human’s temperature is ?
11:02 a.m.
For the following exercise, consider the stock market crash in in the United States. The table lists the Dow Jones industrial average per year leading up to the crash.
Years after 1920 | Value ($) |
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[T] The best-fit exponential curve to these data is given by Why do you think the gains of the market were unsustainable? Use first and second derivatives to help justify your answer. What would this model predict the Dow Jones industrial average to be in ?
For the following exercises, consider the catenoid, the only solid of revolution that has a minimal surface, or zero mean curvature. A catenoid in nature can be found when stretching soap between two rings.
Find the volume of the catenoid from that is created by rotating this curve around the as shown here.
Find surface area of the catenoid from to that is created by rotating this curve around the
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