Answer to Question #146689 in Mechanical Engineering for Dallas Walker

Question

You are asked to create a 5" square in assignment #1. That means your vehicle has to drive in a 5" turn, drive 5", turn, drive 5", turn, drive 5" and end up where you began. According to the directions each block is 200mm. How many blocks will the vehicle have to go before its first turn? Explain.

Answer 1

As here a square is forming by car with dimension of 5 inches.

Area of square =$5\times 5 =25 inch^2$

As one block dimension is given as 200 mm

And as we know that 1 inch =127 mm

so , car will move half of block before first turn