Science, asked by NajarBanik, 1 year ago

Is displacement independent of path? How?

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Answered by prakriti27

yes, as displacement is the shortest distance which can be from any path.

dccomics503: Say there are three points A, B and C

A------------------------------------B
|
C

Your parents told you to go to 'B' via 'C'
You travelled from A to C and then C to B.

So which is your original position? that is 'A' and
Which is your Final position ? that is 'B'

So from where you have been displaced from Point 'A' to Point 'B'.

So your DISPLACEMENT has been occured from A to B. When you are talking of your Displacement at Point 'B' you are talking in a direction from Point 'A' to

dccomics503: continuing above -

dccomics503: Point 'B'. But you are not talking of the Point 'C'. So your Displacement is independent of the Point 'C'.

So your Displacement will be the Straight line Distance From A to B and it will be with an arrow indicating the DIRECTION from A to B.Hence dispancement is a Vector Quantity.

But in case of DISTANCE .

Total Distance covered by you from A to B = Distance from A to C +Distance from C to B

Answered by kingofself

Yes, displacement is independent of path.

EXPLANATION:

This is because displacement is a vector quantity and refers to the distance between the 'initial' and the 'final points'.

In case of 'displacement', it does not bother about which path a body is travelling upon. Displacement is simply the linear distance that a body covers by starting from one point and reaching the final point.

In case of displacement, any route can be taken to reach the final point from the starting point making it a quantity which is independent of the path.

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