Consider a small boat crossing a river. The boat's velocity is 5km/h due north and the water has a current of 2km/h due west. What is the velocity of the boat relative to the shore and what is the angle at which the boat is actually travelling?

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Consider a small boat crossing a river. The boat's velocity is 5km/h due north and the water has a current of 2km/h due west. What is the velocity of the boat relative to the shore and what is the angle at which the boat is actually travelling?

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$Velocity of boat = 5 K m / h (north) Velocity of current = 2 k m / h (west)$

The resultant velocity between boat and current makes the boat to travel in the direction of resultant velocity.

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