Solve the following exercises and discuss your results with your classmates and teacher. 1. The initial, final position and displacement of a particle are:
a) xi = 20m, xf = 6m How much did it move?
b) xi = 10km, Δx = –15km, what is the final position of the particle?
2. An athlete jogs from one end of a straight 80m track to the other:
a) What is your one-way displacement?
b) What is your return displacement? (taking negative direction back)
c) What is its displacement in the total trot?
d) What is your one-way distance?
e) What is your total trot distance?
3. In a circular skating lane whose radius is 96 m, the skater begins to move from point A
to point B which is at the opposite end. Consider the path to be a semicircle
a) What is its displacement?
b) What is the distance traveled?