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University Physics Volume 1

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Publisher:William Moebs, Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny

Chapter2: Vectors

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Problem 36P: The magnitudes of two displacement vectors are A=20mand B=6m . What are the largest and the smallest...

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He walks 2.0 km north, then turns and walks 4.0 km south of east. What is his displacement vector? Take east to be in the +x̂ direction and north to be in the +ŷ direction.

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Write the given values with suitable variables.

$\begin{array}{rcl} d_{1} & = & 2 km \\ d_{2} & = & 4 km \end{array}$

Here, $d_{1}$ denotes the distance in the north and $d_{2}$ denotes the distance in south of north.

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