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Two trees have perfectly straight trunks and are both growing perpendicular to the flat horizontal ground beneath them. The sides of the trunks that face each other are separated by 1.20 m. First, he leaps from the foot of one tree to a spot that is 1.10 m and Then, he jumps back to the first, he leaps on it at a spot that is 1.60 m Finally, he leaps back to the other tree, now landing at a spot that is 2060 m above the ground. What is the magnitude of the squirrel's displacement? Click if you would like to Show Work for this question:

Explanation / Answer

Distance =1.2 m

height=1.1 m

landing spot height=2.6m

From the question we can understand that the magnitude of the displacement is concerned only with the distance from the first to last point.

It is a directionless measurement

Here we can see that,

c2=a2+b2 where a and b are the horizontal and vertical components

c=sqrt(1.22+2.62)m

=2.86 m

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