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    3 Derivatives

    Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.


    3.9 Related Rates

    Copyright © Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.


    Related Rates
    If we are pumping air into a balloon, both the volume and
    the radius of the balloon are increasing and their rates of
    increase are related to each other.

    But it is much easier to measure directly the rate of


    increase of the volume than the rate of increase of the
    radius.
    In a related rates problem the idea is to compute the rate of
    change of one quantity in terms of the rate of change of
    another quantity (which may be more easily measured).

    The procedure is to find an equation that relates the two


    quantities and then use the Chain Rule to differentiate both
    sides with respect to time. 3
    Example 1
    Air is being pumped into a spherical balloon so that its
    volume increases at a rate of 100 cm3/s. How fast is the
    radius of the balloon increasing when the diameter is
    50 cm?
    Solution:
    We start by identifying two things:
    the given information:
    the rate of increase of the volume of air is
    100 cm3/s
    and the unknown:
    the rate of increase of the radius when the
    diameter is 50 cm 4
    Example 1 – Solution cont’d

    In order to express these quantities mathematically, we


    introduce some suggestive notation:

    Let V be the volume of the balloon and let r be its


    radius.

    The key thing to remember is that rates of change are


    derivatives. In this problem, the volume and the radius are
    both functions of the time t.

    The rate of increase of the volume with respect to time is


    the derivative dV/dt, and the rate of increase of the radius
    is dr /dt.

    5
    Example 1 – Solution cont’d

    We can therefore restate the given and the unknown as


    follows:

    Given: = 100 cm3/s

    Unknown: when r = 25 cm

    In order to connect dV/dt and dr/dt, we first relate V and r


    by the formula for the volume of a sphere:

    V = r 3
    6
    Example 1 – Solution cont’d

    In order to use the given information, we differentiate each


    side of this equation with respect to t. To differentiate the
    right side, we need to use the Chain Rule:

    Now we solve for the unknown quantity:

    7
    Example 1 – Solution cont’d

    If we put r = 25 and dV/dt = 100 in this equation, we obtain

    The radius of the balloon is increasing at the rate of


    1/(25) ≈ 0.0127 cm/s.

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