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A man leaves his front door, walks 1000 ft east, 2000 ft north, and then takes a penny from his pocket and drops it from a cliff 500 ft
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- Set up a coordinate system and write down an expression, using unit vectors, for the displacement of the
- The man then returns to his front door, following a different path on the return trip. What is his resultant displacement for the round trip?
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