Liceo de Cagayan University

Senior High School Department

STUDENT ACTIVITY SHEET NO. 4

Subject: General Physics 1

Learning Competencies:
● Perform addition of vectors

Solve for the resultant displacement using the parallelogram or head to tail method.

1. What is the resultant displacement if a man jogs 120 m, east and then walks 50 m due south?

SCALE: 1 cm: 40 m
2 2
c =a + b
2
θ=tan
1.5
3 ( )
3cm
2 2
c =3 +1. 25
2
θ=tan ( 12 )
3.1 cm θ 2
1.5cm c =9+ 0.3125 θ=30°
2
c =9.3125

√ c 2=√ 9.1325
2. Minnie rides her bicycle to go to school. Every day, she
c=3.travels
1 cm 15 km 45° north of east.
Then,
20 km heading to 70° south of east. She stops at a store to buy snacks then proceeds to cover
another 15 km 25° south of east before reaching her school. What is her total displacement?
--- The total displacement is 35 km.

3. A cruise ship leaves the port while covering 60 km, 225°. Throughout the journey, it covered
another three routes as follows: 70 km 80° south of west, 90 km 30° south of east, 50 km 15°
north of west. What is the total distance covered by the cruise ship? What is its total
displacement? --- The total distance covered by the cruise ship is 270 km and the total
displacement is 142 km.

4. A student walks 10 m east and 6 m north. What is her resultant displacement? ---The
resultant displacement is 11.6 m.

5. A racing car followed the following routes: 55 km north, 80 km 45° north of east, and 60 km

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30° south of east. How far is the car from the starting point? What is its direction with respect
to its initial position? – the distance of the car from the starting point is 136km and its
direction is 54°, east of north.

6. A driver was instructed to follow the given directions: 7.5 km, 66° north of east and 6.0 km,
south. Unfortunately, the driver traveled in the opposite direction in the second part of his
trip.
What is the driver’s resultant displacement? --- the driver’s resultant displacement is 9km.

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cm

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