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Why the ratio of displacement to distance is never greater than 1?
The technical answer is that displacement is the vector sum of the distances. An example to illustrate the difference in less technical terms, distance travelled in one direction added to the same distance in the opposite direction will result in the total distance being twice the distance of each leg but the total displacement is 0.
Does an odometer in a car measure distance or displacement?
Distance
Under what condition the distance and displacement are equal?
The magnitude of displacement is equal to distance traveled when motion is in a straight line.
What is the difference between the distance vs displacement?
Shortest distance is called displacement . displacement =average velocity / average time . It is a vector quantity both has magnitude and direction.But,distance is a scalar quantity having only magnitude.
An athlet completes one round of a circular track of diameter 200m in 40s what will be the distance covered and the displacement at the end of 2 minutes 20s?
Distance covered - 2199m Displacement - 200m Distance covered - 2199m Displacement - 200m
