Fundamentals of Physics Extended (10th Edition)

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Chapter 3 - Vectors - Problems - Page 61: 70a

Answer

The magnitude of the resultant displacement is $$ |\vec{r}|=370 \mathrm{m} . $$

Work Step by Step

$\text{see image below:} \downarrow$ The diagram shows the displacement vectors for the two segments of her walk, labeled $\vec{A}$ and $\vec{B},$ and the total $(\text { "final") displacement vector, labeled } \vec{r} . $ We take east to be the $+x$ direction and north to be the $+y$ direction. We observe that the angle between $\vec{A}$ and the $x$ axis is $60^{\circ} .$ Where the units are not explicitly shown, the distances are understood to be in meters. Thus, the components of $\vec{A}$ are $A_{x}=250 \cos 60^{\circ}=125$ and $A_{y}$ $=250 \sin 60^{\circ}=216.5 .$ The components of $\vec{B}$ are $B_{x}=175$ and $B_{y}=0 .$ The components of the total displacement are $r_{x}=A_{x}+B_{x}=125+175=300$ $r_{y}=A_{y}+B_{y}=216.5+0=216.5$ The magnitude of the resultant displacement is $$ |\vec{r}|=\sqrt{r_{x}^{2}+r_{y}^{2}}=\sqrt{(300 \mathrm{m})^{2}+(216.5 \mathrm{m})^{2}}=370 \mathrm{m} . $$
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