Solved: A swimming duck paddles the water with its feet
Chapter 16, Problem 16.49(choose chapter or problem)
A swimming duck paddles the water with its feet once every 1.6 s, producing surface waves with this period. The duck is moving at constant speed in a pond where the speed of surface waves is 0.32 m/s, and the crests of the waves ahead of the duck are spaced 0.12 m apart.
(a) What is the duck’s speed?
(b) How far apart are the crests behind the duck?
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