Question

You are stationary on the ground and are watching a bird fly horizontally towards you at a rate of 3 m/s. The bird is located 60 m above your head. How fast does the angle of elevation of your head change when the horizontal distance between you and the bird is 80 m? (Leave your answer as an exact number.)

Answer 1

Based on the rate the bird is flying and the distance above your head, the speed of change in the angle of elevation is 0.018 rad/sec.

What is the speed of the change in angle of elevation?

First use the Pythogoreous theorem to find the distance between you and the bird at 80 m:

= √(60² + 80²)

= √(3,600 + 6,400

= 100 m

Cos² = 80² / 100²

= 16 /25

Differentiate this to get:

= ((-60 x 16/25) / 80²) x (-3)

= 9/500

= 0.018 rad/sec

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