Question

A particle is displaced by 8m east and then it is displaced by 6m north. What is the resultant displacement of the particle?

Answer 1

Explanation:

Consider, east direction to be x-direction, north direction to be y-direction and vertically upward direction to be z-direction.

Displacement of the particle is given by

S

=8

i

^

+6

j

^

+10

k

^

Magnitude of displacement ∣

S

∣=

6

+8

2 +10 2

=10 2 m