The Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, has the highest tides in the world, as suggested in the

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The Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, has the highest tides in the world, as suggested in the photographs on page 452. Assume that in mid-ocean and at the mouth of the bay, the Moon’s gravity gradient and the Earth’s rotation make the water surface oscillate with amplitude of a few centimeters and a period of 12 h 24 min. At the head of the bay, the amplitude is several meters. Argue for or against the proposition that the tide is amplified by standing-wave resonance. Assume the bay has a length of 210 km and a uniform depth of 36.1 m. The speed of long-wavelength water waves is given by √gd where d is the water’s depth.
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Advanced Financial Accounting

ISBN: 978-0132928939

7th edition

Authors: Thomas H. Beechy, V. Umashanker Trivedi, Kenneth E. MacAulay

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