Why Do Boats Make THIS Pattern?
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Why Do Boats Make THIS Pattern? with tags physics, minutephysics, science
This video is about the "Kelvin wake" shape of water wakes behind boats - we talk about mach angle, dispersion, superposition of many waves, and how these all lead to the pattern of a wake. We don't get into Froude number though...
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