A boat floating in deep water is caught in water waves that have a crest-to-crest distance of 4.0 m. The boat is swinging with a frequency of 1.0 H Fill in the blank. The speed of this wave is thus m/s.

A boat floating in deep water is caught in water waves that have a crest-to-crest distance of 4.0 m. The boat is swinging with a frequency of 1.0 H Fill in the blank. The speed of this wave is thus m/s.

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The speed of this wave is thus
m/s.

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