Talk:Wake

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[edit] The NDSL Link

If you are offended by the note in the text about the offline link, feel free to move it here, but I did want to catch people's attention to the odd, archival link that a {dlw} template will leave. I'm not sure if the site will be back up, but the note seemed to indicate so. Pax. --KJPurscell 00:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wake angle

• Someone inserted "The angle of the wake of a body moving steady in a deep fluid is 2arcsin(1/3) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/|title=Undergraduate Mathematics at the University of Cambridge |date=2007-09-19}}</ref> (approximately 39 degrees).". This is wrong. The angle varies with speed. I have seen plenty of boat and ship and swimming waterbird wakes. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:46, 22 May 2008 (UTC)