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A toy car is moving horizontally and started its motion from a position of X1 = 2 cm, then after 3 seconds it reached at a position of X2 = 6cm in the same direction, finally it returned back to X3= 5 cm after one more second.
The total distance traveled by this car is

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Since distance is a scalar and not a vector, the total distance traveled is the sum of all the distances covered throughout the journey.

In Physics, we have two categories of quantities;

  • Vectors
  • Scalars

The difference between vectors and scalars is that vectors has direction but scalars do not have direction. Both quantities posses magnitude.

The total distance covered can be obtained algebraically since distance is a scalar.

Hence, total distance covered = 2 cm + 6cm + 5 cm = 13 cm

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