From N V Fitton, ideas to share with my students at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria campus.
I teach mathematics and computer science.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

173 correction on quiz 5.4

Hats off to the alert student who asked if I really meant net distance. No, because net distance would be the same as displacement. What I should have said is total distance. If I rode my bike from home to school and back home, my displacement, or net distance, would be zero, but I would credit myself with at least seventeen miles ridden that day.

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