A girl delivering newspapers covers her route by traveling 3.00 blocks west, 4.00 blocks north, and then 6.00 blocks east. What
is her resultant displacement?
1 answer:
The concepts used to solve this problem are those related to the Pythagorean theorem for which we will calculate the distance and the pitch.
According to the attached diagram we have that the expression of the resulting displacement is
Therefore the resultant displacement of the girl is
Therefore the girl has displaced around of 5 blocks
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Answer:
The average velocity is 0.15 m/s
Explanation:
Use the definition of average velocity as the distance traveled divided the time it took.
Since the movement was on the plane from the origin (0, 0) to the point (-30, 20) corresponding to 30 m west and 20 m north, we calculate the distance using the distance between two points on the plane:
Then the magnitude of the average velocity can be estimated via the quotient between distance divided time, but since the units required are meters per second, we first convert the four minute time into seconds: 4 * 60 = 240 seconds.
Then the average velocity becomes: