How do you find displacement of an object?
What is the formula to find displacement?
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Answer:
the formula of displacement is...
s=velocity ×time
Displacement is the shortest distance between two positions
Explanation:
displacement, which is an object's change in position considering its starting position and final position. A displacement measurement does not take into account what route the object took to change position, only where it started and where it ended. It is easiest to picture displacement by locating where the object started and drawing a straight arrow from this point to the point where the object stopped moving. Remember, in physics this arrow is called a vector. Its length corresponds to the magnitude, or size, of the movement, and the arrow points in the direction of travel. This makes displacement a vector quantity because it incorporates both movement, magnitude and direction.
In the shorthand of physics, displacement is written as Δs. 'Delta' is a Greek letter shaped like a triangle and it's used to represent 'change in.' The 's' stands for spatial location. So Δs stands for a change in spatial location. You should get comfortable using this shorthand just in case you see questions asking for you to solve for Δs that don't actually ask for displacement by name.