The shapes of waves of ships and ducks

A video about the pattern of waves making up the wake of a ship or a duck. This is a common topic in university-level fluid mechanics courses, but my intention was to give a fairly complete explanation without assuming any more advanced knowledge than trigonometry.

A video about the pattern of waves making up the wake of a ship or a duck. This is a common topic in university-level fluid mechanics courses, but my intention was to give a fairly complete explanation without assuming any more advanced knowledge than trigonometry.

Supplementary material for this video will be added to this pages soon.