Johnny walks 4 meters east, stops and then walks 6 meters west. It took Johnny 10 seconds to walk this path. What is his total distance traveled?

1 Answer
Mar 4, 2018

Johnny has a covered a distance of #4+6=10m#

Distance is simply the total path length travelled,it is a scalar quantity.

And,as it is given,that he covered this distance in #10s#,we can also say his average speed during this journey was #10/10=1ms^-1#

But,displacement was actually #6-4=2m# towards west.

And the average velocity was #2/10=0.2 ms^-1# towards west