A person is sitting at the very back of a canoe of length L, when the front just bumps into the dock.  If the canoeist gets up and walks to the front of the canoe there is no friction between the boat and the water. How far will they be from the dock? Expressing in terms of length of canoe, mass of person m_p, and mass of canoe m_c. With this information how do you find the distance (in meters) if the length of the canoe in 3.2m, the person's mass being 51kg, and canoe mass being 66kg?

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A person is sitting at the very back of a canoe of length L, when the front just bumps into the dock. 

If the canoeist gets up and walks to the front of the canoe there is no friction between the boat and the water. How far will they be from the dock? Expressing in terms of length of canoe, mass of person m_p, and mass of canoe m_c. With this information how do you find the distance (in meters) if the length of the canoe in 3.2m, the person's mass being 51kg, and canoe mass being 66kg?

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