A Kite Is Flying Horizontally at a Constant Height of 130

question 56

Essay

A kite is flying horizontally at a constant height of 130 feet above the girl flying the kite. At a certain instant, the angle which the string makes with the girl is 30° and decreasing. If the string is paying out at 10 feet per second, how fast is the angle decreasing? Express your answer in degrees per second. (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

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Definitions:

Ylide

A compound with opposite charges on adjacent atoms, typically consisting of a positively charged heteroatom adjacent to a negatively charged carbon.

Cyclohexanone Oxime

An organic compound resulting from the reaction of cyclohexanone with hydroxylamine, often used as an intermediate in the synthesis of caprolactam.

Clemmensen

A chemical reduction process that converts carbonyl groups in aldehydes or ketones to alkanes using zinc amalgam and hydrochloric acid.

Wolff-Kishner

A chemical reduction process that completely removes oxygen from a carbonyl group, converting it into a methylene group.