Question

can distance be less than the magnitude of dis-
placement ? why?​

Answer 1

HELLO DEAR,

NO,

• It never possible that distance will less than the magnitude of displacement.
• Because distance is a scaler quantity which depends on path followed by object but displacement is a vector quantity which depends on shortest ditance between intial position to final position.
• Therefore from above conclusion we can uderstand that in any condition distance is equal to or greater than displacement, never less than displacement.
• Example - Moving of a body on circular path ,here its distance = perimeter of circular path = 2πr.But displacement is zero on a complete round because its initial and final postion concide at a point.

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