The resistance of the water as the plate attempts to displace it so that it may rotate. Frictional forces still exists in water, but that...
If the sail area is greater than 5 times the size of the keel area, then you will have a dynamic situation, but that doesn't negate anything. It...
The force is an instantaneous force applied when the upper plate applies torque to the plate as it rotates around the cylinder. No reason to...
Ok, i'll say it as clear as possible; this isn't a dynamical equation, its a static one. Additionally, I need to amend my model to equate the...
I think my explanation wasn't clear enough. This model has nothing to do with driving the boat forward. It is a static situation and only deals...
The goal wasn't really to model an actual sailboat, but explore one specific aspect of a boat. The model uses approximations because i'm not...
Hi, this is my first post. I'm a mathematician and not a naval architect or an engineer, so this may actually be really obvious. However, I was...
