Displacement Worksheet Honors Physics Name ______________________________pd______ 1. An ant travels toward the right along a meter stick. If it starts at the 25.00 cm mark and then travels to the 80.00 cm mark, what is its displacement? 2. The ant’s aunt travels from the 35.00 cm mark to the 10.00 cm mark. What is the ant’s aunt’s displacement? 3. The ant’s aunt’s aunt travels from the 15.00 cm mark to the 95.00 cm mark back to the 20.00 cm mark and then finally to the 30.00 cm mark. What is the ant’s aunt’s aunt’s dispacement? 4. Kenny Kinematic notes that he is at mile marker 334 on the highway. He travels south to mile marker 181. What is his displacement? 5. Phylis Physics travels a displacement of 2.50 km north followed by 4.30 km south and then 1.40 km north. What is her final displacement? What total distance did she travel? 6. A student travels 4.0 m east, 8.0 m south, 4.0 m west, and finally 8.0 m north. What is her displacement? What distance did she travel? 7. A space shuttle takes off from Florida and circles the Earth several times, finally landing in California. While the shuttle is in flight, a photographer flies from Florida to California to take pictures of the astronauts when they step off the shuttle. Who undergoes the greater displacement, the photographer or the astronauts? 8. What is the difference between the displacement of the photographer flying from Florida to California and the displacement of the astronauts when they fly from California back to Florida.
