A fire ant, searching for hot sauce in a picnic area, goes through three displacements along level

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A fire ant, searching for hot sauce in a picnic area, goes through three displacements along level ground: d1 for 0.40 m southwest (that is, at 45o from directly south and from directly west), d2 for 0.50 m due east, d3 for 0.60 m at 60o north of east. Let the positive x direction be east and the positive y direction be north. What are?

(a) The x component and

(b) The y component of d1? What are?

(c) The x component and

(d) The y component of d2? What are?

(e) The x component and

(f) The y component of d3? What are

(g) The x component,

(h) The y component,

(i) The magnitude, and

(j) The direction of the ant's net displacement? If the ant is to return directly to the starting point,


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Fundamentals of Physics

ISBN: 978-0471758013

8th Extended edition

Authors: Jearl Walker, Halliday Resnick

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