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What is the resultant velocity of this sailboat?

Filed Under (Sailboat) by admin on 12-07-2009

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The sailboat is traveling east at 40mph in an ocean current that moves south at 30mph. What is the resultant velocity?

I came up with 40mph southeast but I’m not sure that’s right.

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Gothican says...

50 mph SE
Pythagoras - square root(30^2+40^2) = 50
at an angle of 36.86 off east. (tan-1(30/40))

Posted on: 12/lipca/2009@4:59 po południu
James C says...

50 mph at an angle of 37 degrees south of east.

its a 3,4,5 triangle the angle is 37 degrees

Posted on: 12/lipca/2009@10:59 po południu

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