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Homework Statement
I would really appreciate if someone could check my work for this poblem b.c i seem to be getting the wrong answer.
Problem: A boat moves through a river at 6.1 m/s relative to the water, regardless of the boat's direction. If the water in the river is flowing at 2.4 m/s, how long does it take the boat to make a round trip consisting of a 246 m displacement downstream followed by a 194 m displacement upstream? Answer in units of seconds.
First, I used the pythagorean theorem to find the resultant vector- 6.555150647m/s. Then, used distance=Velocity * time . I plugged in 246m for distance and 2.4m/s for the velocity to get 102.5 sec for time. I did the same thing with the second displacement to get 183.3333333s for time. Then I added them together for a total time of 183.3333333s.