A Snowball's Rate of Change

Initializing live version
Download to Desktop

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System

Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.

Vary the slider to illustrate the related rates problem: If a snowball melts so that its surface area decreases at a rate of 1 , find the rate at which the diameter decreases when the diameter is 10.

Contributed by: Cindy Piao and Karen Ye (Torrey Pines High School) (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


Snapshots


Details

Problem from James Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th ed., 1999, Page 257, #6.



Feedback (field required)
Email (field required) Name
Occupation Organization
Note: Your message & contact information may be shared with the author of any specific Demonstration for which you give feedback.
Send