Chapter 14, Problem 14.30P

The United States possesses the ten largest warships in the world, aircraft carriers of the Nimitz class. Suppose one of the ships bobs up to float 11.0 cm higher in the ocean water when 50 fighters take off from it in a time interval of 25 min, at a location where the free-fall acceleration is 9.78 m/s². The planes have an average laden mass of 29 000 kg. Find the horizontal area enclosed by the waterline of the ship.