Eudoxus and Archytas had been the first originators of this far-famed and highly-prized art of mechanics, which they employed as an elegant illustration of geometrical truths, and as means of sustaining experimentally, to the satisfaction of the senses, conclusions too intricate for proof by words...
An illustration: A speedboat is barreling along at 30 knots on a lake when the operator suddenly cuts the throttle. What happens? The boat gets overtaken and swamped by its own wake. Towed drogues run into a similar problem - they tend to be overtaken and swamped by their own wakes when...