Tangent:

If we are traveling in a car around a corner and we hit something slippery on the road (like oil, ice, water or loose gravel) and our car starts to skid, it will continue in a direction tangent to the curve.

Roadway Design:
Cars on a certain road way travel on a circular arc of radius !!!. In order not to rely on friction alone to overcome the centrifugal force, the road is Banked at an angle of magnitude ! from the horizontal see figure.

The banking angle must satisfy the equation rg tan!! = v2, Where ! is the velocity of the cars and ! ! !" ft/sec/sec is the acceleration due to gravity. Find the relationship between the related rates
!" !"

!and! .
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!"

rg tan ! = v2 32r tan ! = v2 ! r is constant. 32r sec2 !!

!" !" !" !"

= 2v =
!

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!!" !

sec2 !

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cos2 !