Question

Can someone help me with this one question? I only need to answer this to pass my final test:
A sailboat moves north for a distance of 15.00 km when blown by a wind from the exact southeast with a force of 2.50 × 10^4 N. The sailboat travels the distance in 1.5 h. How much work was done by the wind? What was the winds power?

Answer 1

Do you know the equations for power and work?

Answer 2

First we can seperate this into two parts, find work then find power
Work is the energy put into an object to move it over a DISPLACEMENT
it is measured in Joules and is defined as Work(joules)= Force(Newton) * Displacement(meters), or W=F*Δx

Answer 3

Try using that and tell me what you get