Answer to Question #248565 in Mechanics | Relativity for grey tyrant

Question

Activity 9: Provide the answers to the questions provided.

1. You go outside wearing your face mask and face shield and do some errands. All your

stops are along one straight road. You walk 150m east to the sari-sari store, then buy milk tea at the shop 50m to the east away from the sari-sari store, then go to the 7/11 100m to the east away from the milk tea shop to pay some bills. Afterwards, you walk all the way back home.

a. What distance did you travel when you went to do your errands?

b. What is your displacement from the moment you left your house to coming back

home?

Answer 1

a)

$$d=150+50+100=300\ m$$

b)

$$s=0\ m$$