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Related Rates - Tracking a Rocket

Author:
J Mulholland
Topic:
Angles, Calculus, Difference and Slope, Right Triangles
A visualization of a classic related rates problem - a radar station tracking a launching rocket. A rocket is launched vertically and is tracked by a radar station located on the ground 5 km from the launch pad. Suppose that the elevation angle of the line of sight to the rocket is increasing at 3 degrees per second when degrees. What is the velocity of the rocket at that instant?
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