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kellyb1ll
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A man in search of his dog drives first 12.7 mi northeast, then 17.7 mi straight south, and finally 7.97 mi in a direction 30.3° north of west.
a) What is the magnitude of his resultant displacement?
okay so i won't explain everything i did but I am pretty sure i got the right numbers.
for my resultant vector i get (2.09899, -4.63). the magnitude should be 5.08357. but its somehow not the right answer and I am not sure what i did wrong.
whats weird is that i needed to find the position of this vector which would be arctan(2.09899/-4.63) + 360. which would be 294.07136 degrees. THIS IS THE CORRECT ANGLE! so then wouldn't that mean that (2.09899, -4.63) are the right x and y values?
what am i doing wrong?
thanks for any help!
a) What is the magnitude of his resultant displacement?
okay so i won't explain everything i did but I am pretty sure i got the right numbers.
for my resultant vector i get (2.09899, -4.63). the magnitude should be 5.08357. but its somehow not the right answer and I am not sure what i did wrong.
whats weird is that i needed to find the position of this vector which would be arctan(2.09899/-4.63) + 360. which would be 294.07136 degrees. THIS IS THE CORRECT ANGLE! so then wouldn't that mean that (2.09899, -4.63) are the right x and y values?
what am i doing wrong?
thanks for any help!