a) What is the total distance travelled? b) What is the car's total displacement? c) What is the car's average speed of 16 seconds?

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a) What is the total distance travelled?

b) What is the car's total displacement?

c) What is the car's average speed of 16 seconds?

 

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I am not sure how to solve part a), is there a formula for this? For part b) I don't understand how the direction is [N] when the graph is labeled as [S]. For part c) I don't know where the direction came from or how to find that. Thank you.

a) 50.0m

 

b) Δd⃗=d⃗2-d⃗1

=40m[S] - 30m[S]

=10m[N]

 

c) vav =Δd/Δt

= 50m/16s

= 3.1m/s

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