Question

if on a round trip you travel 6km and then arives back home
a) what distance have you travelled .
b)Find displacement

Answer 1

Here are the answers

(a)Total distance covered = 6+6 = 12 km

(b) Displacement = 0 km

Explanation: -

(a) 6 km we took a round trip, then back again to initial place that is home so add 6 km and 6 km to find total distance covered.

(b)Displacement is the shortest path covered in a definite time.

Here, the displacement will be zero as we started our journey from home and come back again to home after some time.

Answer 2

a) your distance is 12km
b) your displacement is 0