A test channel uses three cables to maintain the sail boat in the centerline of the channel to design a new sail boat. It was observed for a given speed, the tension is 40N in cable AB and 60N in cable AE. Determine the drag force Fp and the tension in cable AC.
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The physics of sailing
Sails and keels, like airplane wings, exploit Bernoulli’s principle. Aerodynamic and hydrodynamic insights help designers create faster sailboats.
Bryon Anderson is an experimental nuclear physicist and chairman of the physics department at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He is also an avocational sailor who lectures and writes about the intersection between physics and sailing.
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