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A car moves 65 km due east then 45 miles due west What is its total displacement?
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∙ 14y ago
65km-45km = 20 km to the east. Just replace "east" by "forward" and "west" by "backward" and the answer is immediately visible. The words 'east' and 'west' are just typical math textbook style to veil that it is a simple subtraction that has to be done.
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What is the resultant displacement of someone who runs 5 miles east and 4 miles west?
5 miles minus 4 miles is 1 mile East of the starting point. Displacement is a vector quantity, so it must have magnitude and direction.
What is the Displacement traveling 23km east and the 15 km west?
The total displacement is 8 km.
A girl walks 15 miles west she turns around and walks 8 miles east what is the girls distance and displacement?
She has walked 23 miles, but her displacement is only 7 miles.
A person walks 3 miles north, turns and walks 2 miles east. Calculate the persons distance traveled and their displacement?
Distance 2+3=5 displacement 2
Mark walked 2 miles east then 1 mile north How would you determine his total displacement?
Draw a vector from his starting point to his ending point.
What is a person's total displacement when they walk 20 meters North 40 meters East 50 meters South and 20 meters East?
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Can displacement be more than distance?
No. Distance can be greater than displacement, but not less. The magnitude of the displacement between two points is also the minimum possible distance of a path between the same points.However, the displacement can be zero if the distance is not if the object's starting point and ending point are the same.
What is 8 km east then 3 km west?
It is a total journey of 11 kilometres, resulting in a displacement of 5 km west.
Ted swam 25 m east in a lake and turned and swam 75 m east His displacement was 50 m east what distance did he swim?
If Ted swam 25 m east in a lake and turned and swam 75 m east he swam 100 m total. The displacement of 50 m only takes into account his starting and ending positions, not the travel route.
What is the relationship between displacement and direction?
Displacement is just distance traveled and a direction. For example 40m east is a displacement distance
What is A car travels 8 miles east and then 6 miles south What is the total distance the car covers?
14 miles
Is 5 m east an acceleration?
no. this is a displacement
