Physics, 05.10.2020 01:01 aseel667789

A car travels 3 km north, then turns and travels 4 km west. What is the car's
displacement?

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"Displacement" is the straight-line distance and direction between the start-point and the end-point, regardless of what route was taken to get there.

If you draw a picture of how this car traveled, you'll see that it drove along two legs of a right triangle. I'm guessing the driver probably decided to stay on the streets, instead of driving the STRAIGHT line across people's lawns to get to the grocery store. if a BIRD wanted to make the same trip, it would just fly in a straight line, straight over houses and yards.

The bird would fly along the hypotenuse of the right triangle. The distance would be √(3² + 4²).

That's √(9 + 16), which is √(25), and that's 5 km .

'Displacement' is a vector, and it also needs a direction.

After driving 3km north and 4km west, you are 5km roughly Northwest of where you started from. (actually 53.1° west of north)

The car's displacement is 5 km , 53.1° west of north,

or 5 km at an azimuth of 306.9° .

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m₁v₁ + m₂v₂ = (m₁ + m₂)vmomentum is conserved.the left-hand side of the equation represents the momentum in the system before the collision.the right-hand side represents the momentum in the system after the collisionm₁ and v₁ represents the mass and the velocity of the physics blockm₂ and v₂ represents the mass and velocity of the ball of puttyv represents the final velocity of the combined mass.the question states the two masses stick together. they combined mass has its own velocity with the body mass the sum of the two objects' massestheir combined momentum is (m₁ + m₂)vto find the magitude of (m₁ + m₂)v, we need to add the vectors on the left-hand side of the equation: m₁v₁ + m₂v₂.note the diagram. i have positioned the vectors in accordance with their directions.the magnitude of the resultant can be calculated using the pythagorean theorem since this is a right triangle situation (north and west are perpendicular)|(m₁ + m₂)v| = √[ (m₁v₁)² + (m₂v₂)² ]|(m₁ + m₂)v| = √[ (1.5kg·8.0m/s)² + (0.40kg·20m/s)² ]|(m₁ + m₂)v| = 14.4 kg m/sfor two significant figures (assuming that 20m/s is two), this rounds to 14 kg m/s

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