a 56 kg canoeist sits at rest at the back of a 23kg canoe. the canoe is at rest in the still water of a lake with its front end about 50 cm from the end of the dock. the canoeist realizes that the canoe's paddle is still on the dock, and so carefully crawls back to the front of the 3. is the canoeist likely to be able to reach the paddle



Answer :

Yes , the canoeist is likely to be able to reach the paddle.

What is displacement?

Displacement is a vector quantity. This indicates that it has both a direction and a magnitude and that it is visually represented as an arrow that points from the starting position to the ending position.

As given in the problem a 56 kg canoeist sits at rest at the back of a 23kg canoe. the canoe is at rest in the still water of a lake with its front end about 50 cm from the end of the dock.

the canoeist realizes that the canoe's paddle is still on the dock, and so carefully crawls back to the front of the 3.

Thus, paddles will most likely be within the canoeist's grasp.

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