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A swimmer can swim 4.00 km/h in still water. He heads south across a river that flows east at 2.00 km/h. The river is 0.500 km wide. His velocity wih respect to the ground is

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I don't really feel like doing the work, but in essence you have to find the y-component of the water's velocity and subtract that from 4
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