Homework due Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Homework should be turned in during class or placed in the box outside of the professor's office (Nielsen 343) by 4:00 p.m.
Chapter 8:
Questions: 3, 5, 6, 26
Problems: 6, 18, 19, 23, 26, 35, 45, 48, 56
Problem A: This problems must be solved using the Context-Rich Problem Solutions Outline. Please print a copy of the worksheet from the web and use a it to solve this problem.
Problem A: You have a summer job at a company that specializes in the design
of equipment for sports shows and exhibitions. The company has been given
the contract to design a piece of apparatus for an ice skating show.
In this show, an ice skater will start from rest and glide down an
ice covered ramp. At the bottom of the ramp, the skater will continue
gliding around an ice covered loop which is inside of a vertical
circle. After going around the vertical circle, the skater will
emerge at the bottom and glide out on the skating rink floor to the
wild applause of the audience. The make a spectacular effect,
the circular loop should have a diameter of 35 feet. Your task
is to determine the minimum height of the top of the ramp to
the rink floor so that the skater will not fall off the loop at the top.