On a dark and stormy night

Frankensteins Monster Is
walking down the street to a
Monster Bash.
Frankensteins Monster is 7
feet tall and shambling away21
from a lamp post 21 feet
high at a speed of 3 mph.
How fast is the end of the
Shadow moving? How fast is
Frankensteins Monsters

Let x be the distance of FM from the lamppost

and y be the distance of the end of his shadow to
the lamppost. By similar triangles:

a)
21
y
d
=
21 y21 x=7 y 14 y=21 x 2 y=3 x ( 2
7 yx
dt
Substituting gives us:

dy
dy
1
=3 ( 3 mph ) =4 mph
dt
dt
2

Let z be the length of his shadow:

Logan Jorgensen-Tosh
Calc AB

b)

21 x + z
d
d
=
21 z=7 x+ 7 z 14 z=7 x 2 z=x ( 2 z=x ) s
7
z
dt
d
A
Train A is 24 miles
north of Train B and is
traveling south at a
rate of 30 mph. Train B
is traveling west at a
rate of 9 mph. At what
rate is the distance
between them
changing in an hour?
Is it increasing or
Thm.

(24x)2 + y 2=z 2

After 1 hour

24

yB

By Pythagorean

d
d
+2 y
{( 24x )2+ y 2=z 2 } 2 ( 24x ) dx
dt
dt
d

x=30 mi , y=9, z=31.3209195

( )

Also

dx
dy
=30 mph , =9 mph
dt
dt

Therefore:

2 (2430 mi )(30 mph )+ 2 ( 9 mi )( 9 mph )=2 ( 31.3209195 )

dz
360
dt