Indiana Jones is looking for the Ark of the Covenant. He found a box containing the clue of its location. Total of three displacements lead to this point and these are 2. A = 72.4 m, 32.0° east of north B = 57.3 m, 36.0° south of west C = 17.8 m, due south With only 10 minutes to dig it, Jones decided to calculate where to go instead of plotting each displacement. What does he calculate?

Indiana Jones is looking for the Ark of the Covenant. He found a box containing the clue of its location. Total of three displacements lead to this point and these are 2. A = 72.4 m, 32.0° east of north B = 57.3 m, 36.0° south of west C = 17.8 m, due south With only 10 minutes to dig it, Jones decided to calculate where to go instead of plotting each displacement. What does he calculate?

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Chapter2: Vectors

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