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Initial Acceleration?
The force exerted by the wind on a sailboat is approximately perpendicular to the sail and proportional to the component of the wind velocity perpendicular to the sail. For the 950-kg sailboat shown in the figure below, the proportionality constant is
Water exerts a force along the keel (bottom) of the boat that prevents it from moving sideways, as shown in the figure. Once the boat starts moving forward, water also exerts a drag force backwards on the boat, opposing the forward motion.
If a 15-knot wind (1 knot = 0.514 m/s) is blowing to the east, what is the initial acceleration (m/s2) of the sailboat?
The force exerted by the wind on a sailboat is approximately perpendicular to the sail and proportional to the component of the wind velocity perpendicular to the sail. For the 950-kg sailboat shown in the figure below, the proportionality constant is
Water exerts a force along the keel (bottom) of the boat that prevents it from moving sideways, as shown in the figure. Once the boat starts moving forward, water also exerts a drag force backwards on the boat, opposing the forward motion.
If a 15-knot wind (1 knot = 0.514 m/s) is blowing to the east, what is the initial acceleration (m/s2) of the sailboat?