DISTANCE AND DISPLACEMENT WORKSHEET

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CBSE COACHING FOR VI - XII PHYSICS BY ER. ALOK RANJAN ENQUIRY @ 8002616622
1. Assume your school is located 2 km away from your home. In the morning you are going to school and in the evening
you come back home. In this entire trip what is the distance travelled and the displacement covered?
2. An athlete covers 3 rounds on a circular track of radius 50 m.
Calculate the total distance and displacement travelled by him.
3. Calculate the displacement vector for a particle moving from a point P to Q as shown below.
Calculate the magnitude of displacement.
4. A body is moving in a square of side 10 m. Calculate distance and displacement in the following cases:
(a) From A to B (b) From A to C (c) ABCDA
5. Calculate the distance and displacement of a body moving in a complete circle.
6. A farmer moves along the boundary of a square field of side 10 m in 40 s. What will be the magnitude of displacement
of the farmer at the end of 2 minutes 20 seconds?
7. A physics teacher walks 4 meters East, 2 meters South, 4 meters West, and finally 2 meters North. Find distance and
displacement.
8. Use the diagram to determine the resulting
displacement and the distance traveled by
the skier during these three minutes.

9. What is the coach's resulting displacement and distance of travel?

10. A mountain climbing expedition establishes a base camp and two intermediate camps, A and B. Camp A is 11,200 m
east of and 3,200 m above base camp. Camp B is 8400 m east of and 1700 m higher than Camp A. Determine the
displacement between base camp and Camp B.
11. Calculate both the distance and the magnitude of the displacement of the Earth after…
(a) One complete orbit around the Sun (b) One-half orbit around the Sun (c) One-fourth orbit around the Sun
What relationship between distance and displacement does this illustrate?
An astronomical unit (AU) is the same as the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun.
12. A person moves 30 m North and then 20 m towards
East and finally 30 2 m in South-West direction. Find
Distance and displacement of the person from the origin.
13. A person moves 30m due north then 20m due east finally 20 2 m south-west.
Find Distance and displacement of the person from the origin.
14. A person travels 20m East, 8m North and finally 8 2 North-West. Find the distance and displacement of person?
15. John travels 250 miles to North but then back-tracks to South for 105 miles to pick up a friend. What is John’s total
displacement?
16. An object moves along the grid through points A,B,C,D,E, & F as shown below. The side of square tiles measures 0.5 km.
a) Calculate the distance covered by the moving object. b) Find the magnitude of the displacement of the object.
17. A car travels along a straight road 100 m east then 50 m west. Find the distance and displacement of the car.
18. A person walks 4 meters east, then walks 3 meters north. Determine distance and displacement.
19. A runner travels around rectangle track with length = 50 meters and width = 20 meters. After travels rectangle track
two times, runner back to starting point. Determine distance and displacement.
20. Car’s speedometer reads 10,500 km at the start of a trip and 10,700 km at the end. Determine distance and
displacement.

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