Question

State the differences between distance and displacement.

Answer 1

Displacement is the shortest path between initial and final point whereas distance is the actual path covered by an object.
Displacement can be less or equal to the distance, but can never be more.

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Answer 2

Distance
1) The actual length of path is called distance
2) Distance is always postive.
3) Distance is scaler quantity
Displacement
1) short distance between intial and final position is called displacement
2) Displacement may be negative and postive
3) displacement is vector quantity