A square park has side length

PHYSICS · Subjective · CBSE · Physics · Motion · Motion

Problem

A square park has side length 50 m50\,\text{m}. A boy starts from the south-west corner S, walks north along the western edge to the north-west corner N, then turns right and walks east along the northern edge until he reaches point P, the exact mid-point of the northern edge. (i) Determine the length NP of the second segment. (ii) Calculate the total distance travelled from S to P. (iii) Calculate the magnitude of the displacement from S to P.

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