Question

A tugboat is trolling down a river. The tugboat has a velocity of 10 mph due east. The current in the river has a velocity of 5 mph, forty degrees north of east. The water is a cool forty-five degrees fahrenheit while the average air temperature is fifty-seven degrees fahrenheit. The captain ofthe tugboat is 46 years old and the winds were blowing ten mph due west. To maintain the boats velocity, the tugboat captain had to accelerate the boat 0.5m/s2 due east.

define and briefly describe scalar and vector quantities. Diagrammatically represent the problem statement and give a complete list ofthe scalar and vector quantities

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