Question

Observe the figure given below and answer the questions given:
a. What is the term used for the distance covered from A to B?
b. What do you call the total motion of the ball from A-B-A-C-A?

the figure is in the below png

Answer 1

Yes, an object even after it has moved through a distance, it can have zero displacement. As we know distance is just length of the path an object has covered irrespective of its direction or position with reference to certain point, where as the shortest distance measured from the initial to the final position of an object is known as the displacement.