Question

A car drives north at 40mi/h for 10 min and then turns east and goes 5.0 mi at 62mi/h . Finally, it goes southwest at 30mi/h for 6.0 min. Find the car's displacement and average velocity ( in x and y components)

Answer 1

Calculate the distance travelled in vertical and horizontal directions (x,y) using v=d/t . Now you don't need to do any extra work to find displacement and average velocity because the displacement is just the distance travelled from the origin to the end x and y components , and the average velocity is just the displacement/total time in x and y.

Answer 2

so once i find d in the x and y direction?

Answer 3

that's the displacement?

Answer 4

Yes because the question asks for the displacement in x and y components separately .

Answer 5

ok thanks