2. A general needs to take his troops across the river. He spies two boys with a small boat. He commandeers both the boat and the boys. Unfortunately, the boat will only hold two boys or one soldier. Yet he determines a method for getting his troops across. What could it be?

Assuming compressible flow of air and that the measurements are done at flagstaff a pitot static tube that gives the difference of total and static pressure measures 0.35 m of mercury. what is the velocity of air? assume the temperature to be 300k. (submit your excel or matlab calculation sheet)