Question #3b4ab
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Jun 22, 2017
Bee moves along the circumference of the bowl.
Circumference
Speed
Distance moved in
We see that in
Jun 22, 2017
The thing to take away from this problem is that distance is a scalar, a quantity that has only magnitude. Displacement, on the other hand, is a vector, a quantity that has both magnitude and direction.
As was mentioned, since the bee ended up where it started, it's displacement is zero.