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ISBN: 8220103026918

Author: Walker

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 3, Problem 41PCE

To visit your favorite ice cream shop, you must travel 490 m west on Main Street and then 950 m south on Division Street. (a) Find the total distance you traveled. (b) Write your displacement vector in unit vector notation, taking the x ^ direction to be east and the y ^ direction to be north. (c) Write the displacement vector required to return to your starting point in unit vector notation.

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