Question: 6 Bees and vectors Consider a bee foraging for nectar by going to various flowers in a field near its hive. Suppose that the bee

6 Bees and vectors
Consider a bee foraging for nectar by going to various flowers in a field near its hive. Suppose that the bee starts at the hive and visits three flowers along its route. Let our \( y \) versus \( x \) coordinates of locations have \((0,0)\) as the location of the hive, with \( y \) representing the North-South axis (positive and negative \( y \)) and \( x \) representing the East-West axis (positive and negative \( x \)), respectively.
- Flower 1 which is \(45^{\circ}\) counterclockwise away from the positive \( x \) axis (East), at a distance of 150 meters from the hive.
- Flower 2 is \(105^{\circ}\) clockwise away from the positive \( x \) axis (East), at a distance of 200 meters from the hive.
- Flower 3 is in the negative \( x \) direction (West), a distance of 400 meters from the hive.
(a) Sketch the locations of the three flowers and the hive on a \( y \) versus \( x \) plot.
(b) What would be the total displacement vector \(\Delta \mathbf{x}_{\text {hive }\rightarrow 3}\) of the bee for its motion from the hive, to flower 1, to flower 2, and finally ending up at flower 3? Write your answer in the vector notation \(\binom{\Delta x}{\Delta y}\) with the appropriate \( x \) and \( y \) components.
(c) What would be the displacement vector for the portion of the path going from flower 1 to flower \(2\left(\Delta \mathbf{x}_{1\rightarrow 2}\right)\)? Hint: Remember that the displacement is the final position minus the initial position of an object.
(d) What would be the total distance \( d \) covered by the bee as it moves along this path (from hive, to flower 1, to flower 2, and to flower 3)? If you have trouble answering this one, explain how you would calculate the distance using your plot from part (a).
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