ou are asked to estimate discharge in a creek that you have just come upon in a forest. You have no
specialized field equipment with you. You pace off 10 m on the bank of the channel, marking the
endpoints with branches. You toss a stick into the middle of the creek, and time it on your phone as it
passes through your 10 m segment, getting a time of 17 s. You eyeball the width of the creek as being
about the same distance as your 10 m paced segment. You wade into the channel and cross it, finding
that it comes up to just below your knees for most of the way across, with just a slightly shallower depth
near the banks, and a slightly deeper spot part way across. My knees are at 50 cm, so letās say this
means an average of 40 cm depth. What is the discharge, to the nearest order of magnitude