From your house, you walk 5.00 m, 40° north of east; 3.00 m, east; 220 m, 30 south of west; and 3.50 m, south to go to the Super Market. Draw the figure you traveled and find your resultant displacement from where you started.

From your house, you walk 5.00 m, 40° north of east; 3.00 m, east; 220 m, 30 south of west; and 3.50 m, south to go to the Super Market. Draw the figure you traveled and find your resultant displacement from where you started.

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Chapter2: Vectors

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Problem 29P: A delivery man starts at the post office, chives 40 km north, then 20 km west, then 60 km northeast,...

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From your house, you walk 5.00 m, 40° north of east; 3.00 m, east; 2.20 m, 30 south of
west; and 3.50 m, south to go to the Super Market. Draw the figure you traveled and find your resultant
displacement from where you started.

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