Boat Crossing River

Display vectors:
None Velocity
Display values:
None Position Velocity

Initial velocity= m/s. Initial angle= degrees. Water speed= m/s.

The red circle represents a boat crossing the river, with the input velocity with respect to the water. The green rectangle represents a block of wood drifting in the water. The units in the animation are MKS (meters, kilograms, and seconds). Click on a point in the animation to display the x and y coordinates. In the vector displays, the vector components are blue arrows, while the resultant vector is displayed in red.

By Robert Johnson, using the Physlet Animator and dataGraph classes from Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni.