You are in your kayak, paddling across the Charles River, which we can treat as having parallel banks separated by a distance of 470. m. The river is flowing east at a constant speed of 1.60 km/h, and you paddle your kayak at a constant velocity, relative to the water, of 4.60 km/h at an angle of 21.0° east of north. Cambridge velocity of the water with respect to the shore your velocity with respect to the water Boston (a) What is your velocity relative to a fixed point on the shore? Your velocity relative to the shore is km/h at an angle of ° east of north. (b) How much time, in seconds, does it take you to paddle from one bank of the river to the other, under the conditions described above? Note that you will not land on the far side at the point directly across the river from where you started. (c) While you are crossing the river, how far downriver do you travel (in meters)? m

You are in your kayak, paddling across the Charles River, which we can treat as having parallel banks separated by a distance of 470. m. The river is flowing east at a constant speed of 1.60 km/h, and you paddle your kayak at a constant velocity, relative to the water, of 4.60 km/h at an angle of 21.0° east of north. Cambridge velocity of the water with respect to the shore your velocity with respect to the water Boston (a) What is your velocity relative to a fixed point on the shore? Your velocity relative to the shore is km/h at an angle of ° east of north. (b) How much time, in seconds, does it take you to paddle from one bank of the river to the other, under the conditions described above? Note that you will not land on the far side at the point directly across the river from where you started. (c) While you are crossing the river, how far downriver do you travel (in meters)? m

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You are in your kayak, padling across the Charles River, which we can treat as having parallel banks separated by a distance of 470. m. The river is flowing east at a constant speed of 1.60 km/h,
and you paddle your kayak at a constant velocity, relative to the water, of 4.60 km/h at an angle of 21.0° east of north.
Cambridge
velocity of the water
with respect to the shore
E
S
your velocity with
respect to the water
Boston
(a) What is your velocity relative to a fixed point on the shore?
Your velocity relative to the shore is
km/h at an angle of
° east of north.
(b) How much time, in seconds, does it take you to paddle from one bank of the river to the other, under the conditions described above? Note that you will not land on the far side at the point
directly across the river from where you started.
(c) While you are crossing the river, how far downriver do you travel (in meters)?

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