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Practice Displacement Problems

The document contains 10 practice problems about calculating distance and displacement from descriptions of motions and vectors. The problems involve topics like an Indy 500 race, a cross-country run, motions of an RV, squirrel, and hiker over multiple paths, and vector components and diagrams. Students are asked to solve each problem, showing their work, and design their own displacement problem for the final question.

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Practice Displacement Problems

The document contains 10 practice problems about calculating distance and displacement from descriptions of motions and vectors. The problems involve topics like an Indy 500 race, a cross-country run, motions of an RV, squirrel, and hiker over multiple paths, and vector components and diagrams. Students are asked to solve each problem, showing their work, and design their own displacement problem for the final question.

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Practice Problems: Distance and Displacement Answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper. 1.

What is the total distance traveled during the Indy 500? What is the total displacement? 2. A cross country runner leaves school for a 10-mile run. They end their run at a Dairy Queen one mile from school. What is the total distance they ran? What is their displacement? 3. An RV travels 45 km east and stays the night at a KOA. The next day it travels for 3 hours to the north, traveling 110 km. What is the displacement over the two days for the RV? 4. A squirrel found a pile of nuts 80 meters from its nest. The squirrel made one trip from its nest to the pile. The squirrel with nuts in its mouth headed back towards the nest for 35 meters when it saw a cat. Seeing the cat, it dropped its nuts and ran to a tree that was 200 meters in the opposite direction of the nest. When the cat was gone, the squirrel returned to the spot where it dropped the nuts. What was the total distance traveled? What was the total displacement? Make a diagram that shows the squirrels movements. Label each movement a, b, c, etc. 5. A hikers total displacement is 13 km at 35 degrees North East. If the hiker wishes to return to his starting point on a trail that goes due South and then due East, what will be the total distance he travels on his return trip? Draw a diagram to show the directions and distances he travels. 6. If Vx = 6.8 units and Vy = -7.40 units, determine the direction (degrees) and magnitude of the displacement vector. Draw a diagram. 7. A car is driven 215 km west and then 85 km southwest. What is the displacement of the car from the point of origin (magnitude and direction)? Draw a diagram. 8. A delivery truck travels 18 blocks north, 10 blocks east, and 16 blocks south. What is the final displacement from the origin? Assume the blocks are equal length?

9. A vector points 34.8 to the Northeast with magnitude 15. What are the north and east components that make up the remainder of the triangle? 10. Make up your own displacement problem. Write out the question completely, and solve it showing your own work.

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