1. If you walk 500 m due North and then 200 m due South, a. What is your total distance covered? b. What is your displacement?

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1. If you walk 500 m due North and then 200 m due South,
a. What is your total distance covered?
b. What is your displacement?


2. A spacecraft traveling at 1200 m/s is uniformly accelerated at the rate of 150 m/s2 by burning its
second stage rocket. If the rocket burns for 18 seconds, what is the final speed of the craft?

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