Question

The displacement of a moving object in a given interval of time is zero. what the distance travelled by the object also be zero? justify your answer.

Answer 1

may or may not be zero....if its instantaneous speed is zero all the time then zero distance otherwise non zero diatance

Answer 2

The displacement of a moving object in a given interval is zero i.e., the object comes back to its initial position in the given time (displacement is the shortest distance between the initial and final position of an object).The distance in this case will not be zero because distance is the total length of the path travelled by the body. If the object comes back to its initial position, then length of path travelled is not zero.