A crew member is walking on a tugboat that is pulling a barge. The tugboat is moving at a constant speed upstream in a river that has a constant downstream current. The velocity of the crew member with respect to the tugboat is v₁. What is the velocity of the crew member with respect to the barge?

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Jack Sawyer

7 January, 13:56

A crew member is walking on a tugboat that is pulling a barge. The tugboat is moving at a constant speed upstream in a river that has a constant downstream current. The velocity of the crew member with respect to the tugboat is v₁. What is the velocity of the crew member with respect to the barge?

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Rhys Deleon · Answer 1

v₁

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A crew member is walking on a tugboat that is pulling a barge. The tugboat is moving at a constant speed upstream in a river that has a constant downstream current. The velocity of the crew member with respect to the tugboat is v₁. What is the velocity of the crew member with respect to the barge?

velocity is the change in displacement per time.

the velocity of the crew member with respect to the barge is v₁ since the barge is moving in the velocity of tugboat