What I find interesting is what possible reason could a person have to waste their time thinking about such crap. Ask a physicist he’ll crunch the numbers and give you an answer
True. A Real Physicist would not worry about a boat in a pool with rocks. But remember that this was a question on a physics test in college. I always thought it was an interesting question, and I thought I would share it.
Every Physicist in the world has taken a basic physics class and learned concepts like this as a stepping stone towards their eventual PHD. It's just like math. I like math. I took a lot of it and used it a lot over the years. You can have a PHD in math, but at some time, you had to have taken Algebra. Algebra is easy, but it is a stepping stone to geometry, trigonometry, calculus and beyond.