Recent content by laluser

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos267.htm Really? Please keep your "opinions" to yourself or at least provide some data to back up your comments

oops. I thought Maple was returning the answer as 1. I don't really know why it is doing that. I'm sorry I tried...

Okay i see why the answer is is 1. When you are applying L'Hôpital's rule make sure that you are getting the derivatives right. After you apply it twice and take the limit you should simplify and get 2/2 as your answer, hence the limit is equal to 1

Thank you for your reply. I just went back to check my answer and I see that when i was simplifying 3000/100 i said it was 300 instead of 30 giving me much bigger angle. Thanks again!

I am having a problem with a question from my calc 3 class. I don't think there is any calculus involved, however. So the problem goes like this "A shot is fired from a gun with a muzzle velocity of 1200 ft/s is to hit a target 3000 ft away. Determine the minimum angle of elevation of the gun...