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What is a common instrument for measuring distance?
-- ruler -- tape measure -- meter stick -- yardstick -- car's odometer -- laser rangefinder -- split-image rangefinder
Does the kilometre indicator in a car display its distance or displacement?
Distance. If you drive away from the house one morning, drive around town all day, and return home in the evening, the odometer properly registers several kilometers added, but the day's dislacement is zero. Even better: If you've owned the car for a year, the odometer may well display 20 thousand kilometers, although the car sits parked in the same garage today as the one where it sat on the day you bought it.
How distance and speed in the motions of clock parts are used to measure time?
How you can use the speedometer and a clock to tall how far you've traveled in a car if the cars odometer is not working. Hint assume you are traveling at a constant velocity
A radio controlled car rolls 10 m south then reverses direction and rolls 8 m north The car has traveled a distance of 18 m and has a displacement of m south?
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What tells you the distance a car has traveled?
In a car the Odometer will show you the distance travelled. In mathematics you would need to know the average speed the car was travelling at and the time that it was travelling for. Divide the average speed by 360 to get how many units of distance were covered per second. Muliply this by the number of seconds the car was travelling for. The result will be the distance, in the same unit of distance as the speed was measured in. Example, Average speed = 30km per hour Time = 15 minutes (900 seconds) Distance = (Average Speed/360)*Time = (30/360)*900 = 7.5 (km)
Does the odometer in my car measure the distance or the displacement of my travel under what condition would my distance and displacement have the same magnitude explain?
Displacement is the distance between the starting point and the end point. If you drive your car to the office in the morning and drive it home again at night, the odometer shows a gain of, say, 15 miles, even though the displacement is zero ... the car ended up exactly where it started. Even a better example: If you drove your car back to the dealer's showroom where you picked it up 5 years ago, the displacement for that 5 years would be zero, although the odometer reads 100,000 miles. The odometer displays the distance the car moves, and adds another inch every time the car moves an inch. Distance and displacement have the same magnitude only over a period of time when the travel was all in a straight line, with no turns or curves.
What is the instrument used to measure distance in a car?
The instrument used to measure the total distance that a car has traveled is called an odometer.
What is the equipment called to measure distance traveled in a car?
odometer
How could you measure distance traveled by a car?
The vehicles odometer records the mileage for you.
Why does an odometer in a car measure distance?
Because that's what it's built to do.
What does the odometer and speedometer of a car measure?
Odos measure distance travelled, speedos measure speed at that moment.
Does odometer in a car measure the average speed?
No, the odometer measures the distance traveled by a vehicle. The speedometer measures the speed at any given moment in time, but not the average speed.
What is 1 pedometer?
The pedometer is a device that measures the distance you walk, just as a odometer indicates the distance of a car. It is not a unit of measure.
What measures odometer in the car?
The odometer measures the distance the car has travelled.
What tool would you use to measure the distance from Boston to New York?
I would use the odometer on my car. If that does not help I would use a map and a ruler and measure it to scale.
What was the odometer used for?
to record the distance a car travels
Does odometer of a car measure a scalar quantity?
Yes.
