Soto family is rafting across the river.
\Stretch of the river is
meter wide and the river is flowing south at a rate of
m/sec. \ \
In still water raft travels
m/sec.
Draw the diagram for the current situation:
\\
\
\
The vectors are
and
.
\
Find the component form of
:

Find the magnitude of the vector
:

Direction of the vector
:


Find the component form of
:
and
.

Find the magnitude of the vector
:

Direction of the vector
:

and
are equivalent since magnitude and direction for the both vectors
and
are same.
Therefore,
and
are equivalent.
Therefore,
and
are equivalent.