A fisherman notices that his boat is moving up and down periodically, owing to waves on the surface of the water. It takes 3.5 s for the boat to travel from its highest point to its lowest, a total distance of 0.57 m. The fisherman sees that the wave crests are spaced 5.8 m apart. (a) How fast are the waves traveling?
(b) What is the amplitude of each wave?
(c) If the total vertical distance traveled by the boat were 0.30 m but the other data remained the same, how would the answers to parts (a) and (b) be affected?