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An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus Founded on the the Method of Rates Or Fluxions

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J. Wiley and sons, 1888 - Differential calculus - 199 pages
  

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Page i - Johnson — DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS, an Elementary Treatise on the ; Founded on the Method of Rates or Fluxions. By JOHN MINOT RICE, Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy, and WILLIAM WOOLSEY JOHNSON, Professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. Third Edition, Revised and Corrected. Demy 8vo.
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Page 36 - Two locomotives are moving along two straight lines of railway which intersect at an angle of 60° ; one is approaching the intersection at the rate of 25 miles an hour, and the other is receding from it at the rate of 30 miles an hour ; find the rate per hour at which they are separating from each other when each is 10 miles from the intersection. 2^ miles. 25. A street-crossing is 10 ft. from a street-lamp situated directly above the curbstone, which is 60 ft. from the vertical walls of the opposite...

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