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Homework Statement
You swim from the west to the eastern shore across a 30m wide section of the bow river at 3.5m/s @ 30° N of E. If the river flows southward at 4.0m/s, determine your resultant velocity/
Homework Equations
- Trig (SOH CAH TOA)
The Attempt at a Solution
So first I drew the vector 3.5 m/s @ 30° N of E and found y ( 1.75 m/s [N] ) and the x
( 3.031 m/s [E] ). From the question, 4.0 m/s
ANS = 3.8 m/s @ 37° S of E (??)