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Posted by cameron on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 1:47pm.

Two people are pulling a boat through the water as in the figure below. Each exerts a force of 600 N directed at a è = 45.0° angle relative to the forward motion of the boat. If the boat moves with constant velocity, find the resistive force exerted by the water on the boat.

physics - bobpursley, Monday, October 4, 2010 at 2:19pm
each is pulling with a forward component of 600cos45

Resistive force then is 1200cos45

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