A sprinter runs 200m west and 100m east her displacement is?

Displacement is just distance traveled and a direction. For example 40m east is a displacement distance

no. this is a displacement

The final displacement would be 3 km east of the starting point.

find the resultant of the following displacement a=20km 30south of east

Distance is nondirectional, such as ten feet, displacement is directional, such as ten feet east of my present position.

Men - Don Quarrie, Jamaica Women - Barbel Eckert, East Germany

The displacement of the car is 5 km to the east.

5 miles minus 4 miles is 1 mile East of the starting point. Displacement is a vector quantity, so it must have magnitude and direction.

That would be the vector sum; in this case use Pythagorean theorem as east and north are perpendicular; total displacement is sqrt of 5

Yes. If the slope is positive, the direction of the displacement is positive (e.g. north, east, or right). If the slope is negative, the direction of the displacement is negative (e.g. south, west, or left).

46 squared + 23 squared = the resultant displacement squared. Pythagoras' theorem.

If Ted swam 25 m east in a lake and turned and swam 75 m east he swam 100 m total. The displacement of 50 m only takes into account his starting and ending positions, not the travel route.

a) Displacement: 4.00 blocks north + (6.00-3.00)= 4.00 blocks north/ 3.00 blocks east= total displacement b) Total Distance: 3.00 + 4.00 + 6.00= 13.00 blocks

What is the displacement of a car traveling 10 km north 5km east 15 km south and 5 km north?

She has walked 23 miles, but her displacement is only 7 miles.

Petra Schersing, née Müller was an East German sprinter who was born October 18, 1965. She got a silver medal.

the part that is displaced is the tire hub.

Displacement is a form of distance but unlike distance it is a vector. It has both measure and direction. If I moved 10 meters east then the distance I moved would be 10 m but my displacement would be 10m East as vectors must have a direction to make sense. The distance you traveled is how far you moved, while displacement is how far from the starting point you end up. For example, you get in your car and drive two miles north, then turn around and drive five miles south. The distance you travelled is 7 miles, but your displacement is three miles because that's how far you are from your starting point.

Yes. A displacement is a vector. A vector is some sort of magnitude and a direction. Since 3 blocks is a magnitue(it is a distance) and east is a direction, the quantity is a vector, and therefore, a displacement. However, if you did not include a direction, the quantity is scalar, meaning it has magnitude, but no direction. Saying "Walk Three Blocks" could mean to walk three blocks in any direction. Not very useful. Hope this helps!

The cyclist ends up 1 mile east of the starting point (unless the cycling takes place near the north or south pole!). So the displacement is 1 mile in an easterly direction.

6.5 m at 67 degrees north of east

Yes, in a way. Distance is only a magnitude, and has no direction, so it is just a positive number. Displacement has direction and magnitude, and can also be positive or negative. A displacement of negative 5 miles, a displacement of 5 miles east, or a displacement of 3 miles north and 4 miles west would all correspond to a distance of 5 miles. In other words, they don't measure exactly the same thing, but their values are related, and could be the same.

The net displacement of the bird (i.e., the shortest distance from the tree to the last location of the bird) is 147.3626m. A more direct method of computation is by constructing a single triangle and the use of the formula a­­2 = b2 + c2 - (2bc CosA), where a is the unknown side, b & c are the given sides and CosA is the Cosine of the included angle A between sides b & c. In this problem, a is the unknown displacement, b is the 1st 100m route, c is the 2nd 200m route and A is 45degrees based on the direction of side c which is North45dWest or simply Northwest. Note: Had the direction of c been Northeast, the net displacement would have been 279.7933m. The above answer can be counterchecked by plotting to scale the triangle in a paper (preferably graphing paper) and measure the actual length of side a. A more simple method of computation without using the Cosine function is by way of 2 or 3 right triangles and utilizing the properties of right triangles. But this requires illustrative drawings here to be fully understood. by Philip Ruyeras

It is a total journey of 11 kilometres, resulting in a displacement of 5 km west.

To break a record. He got with in 100m but got stopped. He wanted to land but got beaten. He decided to cross the east and the west of the antarctic instead.