From: sevanie_12@msn.com
To: miss.diane.crenshaw.jjayphysics0113@blogger.com
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 13:58:10 +0000
Hey guys, so ever since i started physics i have been seeing distance a little differently. So i work at Long Island jewish medical center in queens and you can get the bus on Lakeville (the blue dot at the top) or you can get the bus on union turnpike (the blue dot at the bottom. So my co workers say that the path highlighted red is the shortest path to get the bus. While i say the shortest path is the one highlighted in black. We really don't need to do any calculations to see the displacement between point A and the blue dot for the black line is smaller than the displacement between point A and the blue dot for the red line. So if two of us were to walk at the same velocity towards the two bus stops the person walking along the black path would reach to that bus stop faster (it would take less time) than the person walking along the red path. The area under that graph would express a smaller displacement for the black line than the red line. If it wasn't for this physics class i would have just listened to them because they've been there longer than me and i thought they knew what they were saying. But now i see things differently and i'm ready to back up my statements with proof.
Sevani Persaud
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