Question

An airplane is trying to land on the runway using the path below. Vectors and Scalars Questions – NAT 5 What is the total distance traveled by the airplane? m What was the magnitude of the airplane's displacement? m What was the direction of the airplane's displacement? Please abbreviate

Answer 1

Explanation:

The attached image shows the path followed by an airplane that is trying to land. From the figure, it can be seen that initially, its position was 200 m due east, then 150 m due south, 200 m due west, 250 m due south.

(a) The total path covered during its entire journey is called distance.

D = 200 m+150 m+200 m+250 m

D = 800 m

(b) The shortest path covered by an object is called displacement of an object. The shortest path covered is shown by red color. It means that displacement is (150+250) m = 400 m

(c) It is clear from the figure that, the Airplane's displacement is in the south direction.