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Old 12-18-2007, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by powerdraw View Post
hi fellas,

looking over the cover, there is one diagram on there through the THE GOLFING MACHINE that represents a triangle with the law of the 3-4-5. On the same triangle, there is a drawing, on the inclined side, that i cant quite make out. This seems the only diagram not in my edition, was it in another and what was it used for to explain?
The diagram illustrated a non-golf example of a resultant force vector. The "drawing on the inclined side" is a little boat traveling at 5 mph. With a current running due South at 4 mph, the boat has to set its compass NE at 38* (the hypotenuse) in order to travel due East (the resultant force) and cross a river 3 miles wide.
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