Interessante thesis
Ondanks een hint zie ik (nog steeds)niet hoe men vanuit de schets aan een waterdiepte van circa 2m komt.
Apply the idea : use the water’s frame of reference. We
assume that the water moves as a whole, across the whole
depth, hence in the water’s frame, the wave speed is the
same for all the propagation directions. Thus we can con-
clude that in the water’s frame, the boat’s velocity is par-
allel to the bisector of the angle formed by the waves. We
know that in lab frame, the boat moves parallel to the
line AB, hence we can deduce the water speed from the
triangle of velocities using the known value of the boat’s
speed. From the Huygens principle we know that the angle
between the bisector and wave front is arcsin v/w
hence we can measure the angle to find w and calculate the depth
h = w
2/g.
(antw: ≈ 1,8m/s en h≈2m)