An Mechanics Problem By Fares Salem
Classical Mechanics
Level
2
An object travels a distance of 5 km towards east, then 4 km towards north and finally 10 km towards east.
1) what is total traveled distance?
2) what is resultant displacement?
The Answer is the sum of them
The answer is 34.5.
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1 solution
TOTAL DISTANCE = 5+4+10 = 19 obtain the figure and construct a rectangle .
now using pythagoras theorem find AD that is 15 ^2 ( 225 ) + 4^2 ( 16 ) = root(241)
add root 241 and 19 = 34.52