Question

A spy report about a suspected car reads as follows. "The car moved 2.00 km towards east, made a perpendicular left turn, ran for 500 m, made a perpendicular right turn, ran for 4.00 km and stopped". Find the displacement of the car.

Answer 1

The displacement of the car is 6.02 km along the distance tan^–1 (1/12) with positive x-axis.