Chapter 17

Exercise 17c

1. Find the length of the diagonal of a cube of side 12cm. Find also

(a) The angle made by diagonal with an adjacent face (b) The angle between diagonal and an adjacent edge

2. ABCDPQRS is a rectangular block, fixed with the base ABCD horizontal. AB=CD=PQ=RS=12cm, AD=BC=PS=QR=8cm, and AP=BQ=CR=DS=6cm. X is the middle point of PS. Find the length BX,CX and the angle between them. Also find the inclination of BX and CX to the horizon.

In XSC , find length of XC. XC=XB Solve XBC Let Y be the midpoint of AD. Find XCY

3. The lid of a desk is 96cm long and 54cm wide. It slopes at 32 to the horizon with its length horizontal. Find the inclination of its diagonal to the horizon.

4. A rectangular door ABCD, AB=2.40m and AD=1.20m, is free to rotate about AB, which is vertical. If the door is opened through an angle of 44 from the position ABCD to the position ABCD, find (a) the length CD and (b) its inclination to the horizontal.

5. Find the angle between the two diagonals of a rectangular solid of length 20cm, breadth 16cm, height 12cm, which pass through the two upper corners of one of the smaller faces.

6. A plane is inclined at 30 to the horizon. Find the inclination to the horizon of a line on the plane, which makes and angle of 20 with a line of greatest slope.

7. A pyramid OABCD has a square base ABCD. O is vertically above the centre of the square ABCD. If AB=8cm and OA=12cm, find (i) the height of the pyramid; (ii) the inclination of OA to the base ABCD; (iii) the angle between a sloping face and the base; (iv) the angle between adjacent sloping faces.

8. The legs of a tripod are 1m long. The upper ends of the legs meet in a point and the feet are at the vertices of an equilateral triangle of side 50cm. Find the height of the tripod and the inclination of a leg to the ground.

9. The legs of a tripod OP, OQ, OR are 25cm in length, and they are opened so that P,Q,R are on a horizontal plane with PQ=PR=12cm and QR=9cm. Find the height of the tripod and the inclinations of the legs to the horizon.

10. A weight is supported by three chains attached to points in a ceiling at the corners of an equilateral triangle of side 4m. The chains of lengths 6m, 6m, 5m. Find the distance of the weight below the ceiling and the inclinations of the chains to the horizon.

11. From a point A due north of a tower of height 100m, the elevation of top of the tower is 3230. Find the elevation of the top of the tower from a point B, 120m S 60 E of A.

12. From the top of a cliff 100m high two buoys are observed in directions N 32 W and N 25 W, their respective angles of depression being 312 and 230. Find the distance between the buoys to the nearest ten metres.

13. A and B are two points on a horizontal plane and C is a point 250m above the plane. A is due south, and B is south-west of C; the angles of depression of A and B from C are 22 and 12 respectively. Find the distance and bearing of A from B.

14. A point B is due west of A and AB=80m. A tower which stands on the same horizontal plane as A and B is due south of A. The angle of elevation of top of the tower from A, B are 3230 and 1922 respectively. Find the height of the tower.

15. P, Q, R are three points on a horizontal plane, with QR=6000m and angle QPR = 11020. From each of the points P, Q, R the angle of elevation of the summit of a mountain is 45, find the height of the mountain summit above the plane.

16. A tower AB is observed from two points P, Q in the same horizontal plane as B, the foot of the tower. The length PQ=375m, and the angles BPQ, BQP, APB are 58, 4430 2634 respectively. Find the height of the tower to the nearest metre.

17. An observer sees an aeroplane bearing N34W at an elevation of 22, and one minute later its bearing is N75W and its elevation is 2530. Assuming that the aeroplane is travelling at a uniform speed in a straight line at a height of 5000m, find its speed and direction.

18. At two points, the distance between which subtends an angle 3228 at the base of the flagstaff, the angles of elevation of its top are 3424 and 2514 respectively. If the distance between the two points id 56.5m, find the height of the flagstaff, assuming the two points and the foot of the flagstaff are in the same horizontal plane.

19. At a point A the angle of elevation of the top of a hill, 1000m high, is 1230 and the bearing from A is N1622E. At a point B on the same horizontal plane as A, the elevation is 19 and the bearing is S4312E. Find the distance and bearing of B from A.

20. A man in a balloon observes that the angle of depression of an object on the ground bearing due north is 37. The balloon drifts 5.28km due east and the angle of depression is now found to be 2334. Find the height of the balloon.

21. A tower is observed from two stations A and B. It is due north of A and north-west of B. B is due east of A and distant 100m from it. The elevation of the tower as seen from A is the complement of elevation of the elevation as seen from B. Find the height of the tower.

22. A flagstaff, 20m high, stands at the centre of a plot of land in the shape of an equilateral triangle. From the top of flagstaff each side of the plot subtends and angle of 40. Find the length of a side of the plot.

23. From a point A on a level plane the angle of elevation of a kite is , the kite being due south of A. From a point B, which is a distance d m south of A, the kite is seen northwards at an elevation . Find the height of the kite.