Joe Wolfe's University of New South Wales sailing page uses Newton's laws, vectors, apparent wind, keel forces, and eighteen-foot skiffs to explain how sailboats move upwind and sometimes faster than the wind.
Original site: https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html
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Original site: https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-unsw-explained-why-sailboats-can-go-faster-than-the-wind/
#ancientweb #wind #faster #unsw #joewolfe
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