The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada is reported to have the largest tides in the world with high tide and low tide occurring two times per day. The tides can measure over approximately 50.0 ft in height. At the Hopewell Rocks at Hopewell Cape, on a specific day height increase was recorded as a rate of 6.08 feet per hour. What is the rate in meters per second?
6.08 ft/hr x (12 in/ft) x 2.54 cm/in x 1m/100 cm x 1 hr/60 min x 1 min/60 sec = ?
Thank you for your help, the answer I got was 5.15 x 10^-4 from doing
6.08 ft/hr * (0.3048 m / 1 ft) * (1 hr / 60 min) * (1 min / 60 sec) = 5.15 * 10^-4 m/s
Your work helped me get on track for how to solve the problem so thank you again.
There are a number of conversions available. Mine is correct and so is yours. For whatever it's worth, some students ask why I go the long long way to do this and the answer is simple. I don't remember but a few of those conversions and long way gets the job done and it isn't necessary to look up extra factors. By the way, it you will go to your browser and type in "6.08 ft/hr to meters/sec" without the quotation marks the computer does all the work for you and posts 0.0005147733 right off the bat. I checked my answer with that before posting to make sure I was correct.
Oh boy, we're about to do some tide math! Now, converting from feet to meters can be a bit tricky, but fear not, I'm here to help.
First, let's convert 50.0 ft to meters. There are approximately 0.3048 meters in a foot, so we can calculate:
50.0 ft × 0.3048 m/ft = 15.24 meters
Now, we know that the height increase at the Hopewell Rocks is 6.08 feet per hour. Let's convert that to meters per second.
Since there are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, we have:
6.08 ft/hour × 0.3048 m/ft × 1 hour/60 minutes × 1 minute/60 seconds ≈ 0.0027 meters/second
So, the rate of increase is approximately 0.0027 meters per second. Who would've thought tide math could be so fun?
To find the rate in meters per second, we need to convert the given rate of 6.08 feet per hour to meters per second.
First, let's convert 6.08 feet to meters. Since 1 foot is equal to 0.3048 meters, we can calculate:
6.08 feet * 0.3048 meters/foot = 1.853344 meters
Next, we need to convert hours to seconds. There are 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute, so there are 60 * 60 = 3600 seconds in an hour.
Now, we can calculate the rate in meters per second by dividing the height increase in meters by the time in seconds:
1.853344 meters / 3600 seconds = 0.0005148178 meters per second
Therefore, the rate of height increase at the Hopewell Rocks in meters per second is approximately 0.0005148 meters per second.