A person is sitting at the very back of a canoe of length L, when the front just bumps into the dock. A: If the canoeist gets up and walks to the front of the canoe and there is no friction between the boat and the water, how far will they be from the dock? Express your answer in terms of the length of the canoe, the mass of the person mp, and the mass of the canoe mc. B: What will this distance be, in meters, if the length of the canoe is 3.9 m, the person's mass is 51 kg, and the canoe's mass is 73 kg?

A person is sitting at the very back of a canoe of length L, when the front just bumps into the dock. A: If the canoeist gets up and walks to the front of the canoe and there is no friction between the boat and the water, how far will they be from the dock? Express your answer in terms of the length of the canoe, the mass of the person mp, and the mass of the canoe mc. B: What will this distance be, in meters, if the length of the canoe is 3.9 m, the person's mass is 51 kg, and the canoe's mass is 73 kg?

Principles of Physics: A Calculus-Based Text

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Chapter8: Momentum And Collisions

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