Question

Walk from one corner of a room in your house to its opposite corner along its sides. Measure the distance covered by you and magnitude of the displacement. What difference would you notice between the two in this case? (Answer should be in meters))

Answer 1

Answer:

Walk from one corner of basketball court

to another corner

let the length of the court = a meter;

Let breadth of the court = b meter;

So the distance covered by the person to reach from one corner to another corner of the basketball court is = a+b meter

Displacement = underoot a^2+b^2

This is the total displacement by the person to reach from one corner to the other corner of a basketball court.

Displacement is less than or equal to the distance. Displacement depends on the route.