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A boy walks due east in and then due west in the next .
PHYSICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Physics · Motion · Motion
Problem
A boy walks
100
m
100\,\text{m}
100
m
due east in
50
s
50\,\text{s}
50
s
and then
100
m
100\,\text{m}
100
m
due west in the next
50
s
50\,\text{s}
50
s
. (i) Calculate the average speed for the entire journey. (ii) Calculate the magnitude of the average velocity for the entire journey.
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