Suppose you buy a 4 Ã 8-ft sheet of plywood and put it on your roof rack,

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Suppose you buy a 4 × 8-ft sheet of plywood and put it on your roof rack, as in the figure. You drive home at 35 mi/h.
(a) If the board is perfectly aligned with the airflow, how thick is the boundary layer at the end?
(b) Estimate the drag if the flow remains laminar.
(c) Estimate the drag for (smooth) turbulent flow.

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