Question

difference between distance and displacement

Answer 1

1. distance is the path that a moving boby covered and displacement is the minimum distance between final and initial position of the body.

2. distance is a scaler term but displacement is a vector quantiti.

Answer 2

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✔The differences are:--...

↪Distance:--.

□ The length of the route travelled between two points.


□ It is scaler quantity.

□ it will never decrease.

□ It's depend on path .

□ It's have positive values.

↪Displacement:--.

□ The shortest routes between two points.


□ it is a vector quantity.

□ they may be decrease.

□ It's depend on the starting and end point.

□ It's have either positive and nor negative value.

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