Asked by Bailey

A man walks 40 meters north and turns and walks 60 meters in a direction 30 degrees to the east of north.
What is the distance traveled?
What is his displacement?
Answered by bobpursley
Figure the E and N components fo the second walk,then add as vectors to the original N walk.

distance of course is 100m.
diplacement is the resultant vector.

Answered by Bailey
what is the resultant vector? I don't understand.
Answered by bobpursley
Break the sixty meter into components:
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vect.html#vec5

then add the original N walk, then find the resultant displacement.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vect.html#vec7

Answered by Lory
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