Question

someone please help me?!?!?!?!?

Answer 1

How do i figure out the distance and displacement???? :(

Answer 2

but before that please check if my drawing is ok???? :)

Answer 3

@Michele_Laino

Answer 4

@dan815

Answer 5

wow u went all out with ur measuring lol

Answer 6

dan you are prally that missing brother i always wanted.... :")

Answer 7

when your marks are dangling by a single branch.....you have to XD

Answer 8

Displacement= Final position-initial position

Answer 9

for distance, just add 14+6+12+2

Answer 10

but dear there are directions that are opposite to each other and even more weird.... E, N, NE, NE

Answer 11

Distance doesnot depend on direction! Only magnitude

Answer 12

how do i subtract out the two vector direction from a one dimentional???

Answer 13

Ya, displacement is little complicated here.... give me some time....

Answer 14

For distance, just add (simple)

Answer 15

sorry i was referring to displacement......!!!

Answer 16

:D

Answer 17

okay....

Answer 18

so what's up with displacement???? ?XD

Answer 19

can someone please check my drawing if i've make it right so we can proceed with the question????

Answer 20

Trignometric functions cannot be used here...
So, If you have taken accurate scale drawings, The method is absolutely correct.

Answer 21

that's right trig can't be used here since it's not a right triangle....

Answer 22

This is a pure scaling and drawing problem...
Yup you are right.....
Yes because no 90 degrees

Answer 23

Good job!

Answer 24

XD

Answer 25

the thing is that there are three triangles in this problem...XD

Answer 26

If protector is allowed in this question, taking angles and taking length of the distance gives answer.... which you have done....

Answer 27

displacement is my main concern here.....

Answer 28

Ofcourse. See the idea is after taking all those angles and carefully going the path, take the final point and the initial point(in this case 0) and take the difference. Got it?

Answer 29

@joeyboy111

Answer 30

the question was answered why did you tag me?

Answer 31

@joeyboy111 how do i find the displacement????

Answer 32

take the final point and the initial point(in this case 0) and take the difference

Answer 33

what!!!! :O

Answer 34

Displacement, Hmm, I know above we said trig cannot be used...but I cannot see why not? The trip looks like



If we think about "How far total East did he travel?" and "How far total North did he travel" Then we just have 1 giant right triangle with 2 sides known

East...14 + 12sin(15) + 2sin(65) = ?
North...6 + 12cos(15) + 2cos(65) = ?

It's late so let me know if this is totally wrong