Question

Grade 11 Physics

Can anyone please help me answer these two questions? Soon as possible.

1. You walk due North for 100 m, then turned around and walked half that distance South. Your displacement is ____. Your distance is _____.

2. On a trip East to Ohio, you're in a car that goes 30 miles for 45 minutes, then another 70 for 1 1/2 hours before stopping for lunch. Your displacement during this time is ____.

I need to know which is a vector. What's missing?

Answer 1

1. Displacement = 50 m North. Distance = 150m
Displacement is a vector. Distance is a scalar.

2. Displacement is 100 miles East.