Question

1) Starting in Albany, you travel a distance 461 miles in a direction 19.4 degrees north of west. Then, from this new position, you travel another distance 132 miles in a direction 10.2 degrees north of east. In your final position, what is your displacement from Albany?

2) You start out by driving 119 miles north in 3 hours and 41 minutes, and then you stop and park for a while. Finally you drive another 88 miles south in 4 hours and 4 minutes. The average velocity for your entire trip was 21.37 miles per hour to the south. How much time did you spend parked?

3) A rocket-powered sled moves along a track, eventually reaching a top speed of 237 m/s to the east. It then begins to slow down, reaching a complete stop after slowing down for 2.24 s. What was the sled s average acceleration and velocity during the slowdown phase?

Answer 1

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