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The velocity of water waves may depend on their wavelength `lamda`, the density of warter `rho` and the acceleration due to gravity `g`. The method of dimensions gives the relations between these quantities as
where `k` is a dimensionless constant

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`v=ksqrt(lambdag)`
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