On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, comex wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: >> so the faster rower has to slow down to the speed of >> the slower; as a result, the boat crosses the river in the same >> time that it would take the slower of the two passengers to row >> across by emself. > > Surely two rowers rowing at the same speed would propel the boat twice > as fast as one alone...
Clearly you've never rowed crew; not too far off, tho by disciplined dropping down to the lower speed, the added power would probably put you somewhere in between. -G.
