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Wake facts for kids

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Wake could mean several things:

  • Funeral, a gathering for a person who has died
  • Wake is another name for a wave in water
  • Wake can mean changing from being asleep to awake

Images for kids

  • Karmansche Wirbelstr kleine Re

    Visualisation of the Kármán vortex street in the wake behind a circular cylinder in air; the flow is made visible through release of oil vapour in the air near the cylinder.

  • Bodensee at Lindau - DSC06962

    Typical duck wake

  • Fjordn surface wave boat

    Kelvin wake pattern generated by a small boat.

  • 070107-Konigssee-dramaticwake

    Wake of a boat crossing an alpine lake (Koenigsee)

  • Bugwinkel39

    39° ship wake

  • Wake.avon.gorge.2boats.arp.750pix

    The wakes of two slow-moving boats. The nearer boat has made a striking series of ruler-straight waves

  • ISS013-E-48021

    A boat race with overlapping wakes, from the International Space Station, 2006

  • Powwave1908s

    ohn Harvard Biles: "The Design and Construction of Ships, Vol. II: Stability, Resistance, Propulsion and Oscillation of Ships" (1908)

  • Aktersvall1

    Wake from a fast, small motorboat with an outboard motor

  • CGI Wake in Pond

    Wake simulation

  • Kelvin Wake Fr=1

    Kelvin wake simulation

  • Surfer about to catch the wake from a ship

    Germany's only consistent surf spot is a giant wake from a ship

  • Sunseeker Wake

    Wake from a fast motor yacht on the Indian River looking at the 17th Street Bridge

  • Wake (Kilwater) behind a ferry

    Wake behind a ferry in the Baltic Sea

  • Starr 021108-0070 returning from Molokini - wake (November 2002)

    Wake of a boat in the Hawaiian Islands

  • Large engine boat wake

    Wake of a ferryboat just off British Columbia, Canada.

See also

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