Subject: Which way does a boat turn?
From: (JAXAshby)
sherr, ever hear "For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
Yup. I think it's basic physics ....larn't it in gramma school.
if you have, why do you seem to think it doesn't apply underwater?
hmmm let me try and draw a pitcher fer ya.
Your looking at this here paddle wheel just beneath the surface of the water
(totally submerged), from the side, which is rotating clockwise through 360
deg.
It is being driven by a shaft coming out the stern of a boat, longitudinally,
and the whole paddlewheel is located just aft of the transom. (kinda like a RH
paddlewheel).
Now, are you trying to tell me that the amount of "push" that these paddles
develope against the boat, is the same between 090 and 180 deg. rotation as it
is between 270 and 360 deg ?
Shen