
Paint is poured onto a flat surface and a circular patch is formed. The area of the patch increases at a rate of . Find, in terms of , the radius of the patch after seconds.

Important Questions on Further Differentiation
Paint is poured onto a flat surface and a circular patch is formed. The area of the patch increases at a rate of . Find, in terms of , the rate of increase of the radius of the patch after seconds.

A cylindrical container of radius cm and height cm is completely filled with water. The water is then poured at a constant rate from the cylinder into an empty inverted cone.The cone has radius cm and height cm and its axis is vertical. It takes seconds for all of the water to be transferred. If represents the volume of water, in , in the cone at time seconds, find in terms of .

A cylindrical container of radius cm and height cm is completely filled with water. The water is then poured at a constant rate from the cylinder into an empty inverted cone.The cone has radius cm and height cm and its axis is vertical. It takes seconds for all of the water to be transferred. When the depth of the water in the cone is cm, find the rate of change of the height of the water in the cone.

A cylindrical container of radius cm and height cm is completely filled with water. The water is then poured at a constant rate from the cylinder into an empty inverted cone.The cone has radius cm and height cm and its axis is vertical. It takes seconds for all of the water to be transferred. When the depth of the water in the cone is cm, Find the rate of change of the horizontal surface area of the water in the cone.

The volume of a spherical balloon is increasing at a constant rate of per second. Find the rate of increase of the radius of the balloon when the radius is cm.

An oil pipeline under the sea is leaking oil and a circular patch of oil has formed on the surface of the sea. At midday the radius of the patch of oil is m and is increasing at a rate of metres per hour. Find the rate at which the area of the oil is increasing at midday.

A curve has equation; . Show that the curve has a stationary point at and determine its nature.

A watermelon is assumed to be spherical in shape while it is growing. Its mass, kg, and radius, cm, are related by the formula , where is a constant. It is also assumed that the radius is increasing at a constant rate of centimetres per day. On a particular day the radius is cm and the mass is kg. Find the value of and the rate at which the mass is increasing on this day.
