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Question: John travels 250 miles to North but then back-tracks to South 105 miles to pick up a friend. What is john’s total displacement?

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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
Giancoli
ISBN: 9780321625922

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A train leaving Albuquerque travels 293 miles, due east, to Amarillo. The train spends a couple of days at the station in Amarillo and then heads back west 107 miles where it stops in Tucumcari. Suppose the positive x-direction points to the east and Albuquerque is at the origin of this axis.

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