College Physics
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Author: Raymond A. Serway, Chris Vuille
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Chapter 3, Problem 5WUE
A hiker walks 3.00 km north and then 4.00 km west, all in one hour and forty minutes, (a) Calculate his average speed in km/h. (b) Calculate the magnitude of his average velocity. (See Section 3.2 and 3.3.)
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