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Related Rates Clock

Vary the time to illustrate the following related rates problem: the minute hand on a clock is 8 mm long and the hour hand is 4 mm long. How fast is the distance between the tips of the hands changing at one o'clock?

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J. Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals, 4th ed., New York: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1999 p. 249, #36.

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 Ryan Chuang and Jeffrey Tsao (Torrey Pines High School)
"Related Rates Clock"
 http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RelatedRatesClock/
 Wolfram Demonstrations Project
 Published: September 28, 2007
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