Question

What is the difference between distance and displacement with appropiate egamples?

Answer 1

hey frnd here is ur answer...
The total path covered by any object is known as distance ...for example....Ram is going to the market...so the path he covered to reach the market is the distance
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The shortest path covered by any body is known as displacement...for example....there are two paths to reach the market,,one is 15 km and the second one is 5 km ,,so the path of 5km will be the displacement.....
I hope it will help u.....

Answer 2

DISTANCE

• It may be called as the actual length of path travelled by an object by an object.
• It is a scalar quantity because it depends only on length of path not the direction of motion of the object.
• It can never be negative as it doesn't depend on direction.
• Once the object started moving then the distance covered cannot be zero.
• It may be greater or equal to displacement of an object.

• Example:- A car moved 500m and returned back then the distance is 500m + 500m = 1000m.

DISPLACEMENT

• It is actually the shortest distance between the final and initial point of object.
• It is a vector quantity as it depends on magnitude as well as direction of motion of the object.
• It can be negative if the direction of motion is going opposite.

• Once object started moving then displacement may be zero if the final point is on the initial point.

• It may be smaller or equal to distance covered by object.

• Example:- A car moved 500m and returned back then the displacement is 0m.