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Grade 12General Physics

3 A sailboat is traveling north at 10 km/h, relative to the water. The water is flowing west at 5 km/h, parallel to the shore. What is the velocity of the sailboat relative to ground, and what is the angle of travel that the sailboat makes with respect to the shore?

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12 Years agoGrade 12
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12 Years ago
for angle take the dot product of above two


Arun Kumar
IIT Delhi
Askiitians Faculty