Physics, 14.07.2019 15:00 neazisa

Your dog is running around the grass in your back yard. he undergoes successive displacements 3.20 m south, 8.34 m northeast, and 13.0 m west. what is the resultant displacement? (take the +x direction to be east.)

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Answer from: bettybales1986

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Displacement =7.6m
Your dog is running around the grass in your back yard. he undergoes successive displacements 3.20 m

Answer from: cesarcastellan9

The displacement of the dog is $\boxed{7.60\,{\text{m}}}$ and the direction of resultant displacement is $\boxed{20.72^\circ }$ north of west.

Further Explanation:

The dog moves across the lawn as shown in figure. The dog moves from the point $A \to B \to C \to D$ . The final displacement of the dog will be the distance .

As the dog moves in a straight line from A to B, the displacement of the dog in the direction will be $3.2\,{\text{m}}$ from its initial position. Now, the dog turns and moves along the north-east direction and covers a distance of $8.34\,{\text{m}}$ .

The displacement of dog from point B to C in the horizontal direction is:

$\begin{aligned}B{C_x}&=8.34\cos 45^\circ\\&= 5.89\,{\text{m}}\\\end{aligned}$

The displacement of dog from point B to C in the vertical direction is:

$\begin{aligned}B{C_y}&= 8.34\sin 45^\circ\\&= 5.89\,{\text{m}}\\\end{aligned}$

Now from point C, the dog moves horizontally towards the point D and covers a distance of $13\,{\text{m}}$ in the respective direction.

So the final displacement of the dog in the horizontal direction from its initial position is:

$\begin{aligned}{d_x} &= 13 - 5.89\\&= 7.11\,{\text{m}}\\\end{aligned}$

Displacement of the dog in the vertical direction from its initial position is:

$\begin{aligned}{d_y}&= 5.89-3.2\\&=2.69\,{\text{m}}\\\end{aligned}$

Thus, the magnitude of total displacement of the dog from initial position is:

$\begin{aligned}AD&=\sqrt{{{\left( {7.11}\right)}^2} + {{\left({2.69} \right)}^2}}\\&= \sqrt {57.78}\\&= 7.60\,{\text{m}}\\\end{aligned}$

The direction of displacement of the dog from its initial position is:

$\begin{aligned}\theta&= {\tan ^{ - 1}}\left({\frac{{{d_y}}}{{{d_x}}}}\right)\\&= {\tan ^{ - 1}}\left({\frac{{2.69}}{{7.11}}}\right)\\&= 20.72^\circ \,{\text{north}}\,{\text{of}}\,{\text{west}}\\\end{aligned}$

Thus, the displacement of the dog is $\boxed{7.60\,{\text{m}}}$ and the direction of resultant displacement is $\boxed{20.72^\circ }$ north of west.

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Subject: Physics

Chapter: Distance and Displacement

Keywords: Dog is running, grass, in your backyard, successive displacements, 3.60m south, 8.46m north east, 15.6 m west, resultant displacement, horizontal direction, vertical direction.

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