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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.
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A body is moving long the circumference of the circle of radius R and completes half of the revolutionThen the ratio of its displacement to distance is?
After traversing 1/2 of a circular track with radius 'R', the body has effectively moved from one end of a diameter to the other end of the same diameter. The distance traveled is 1/2 the circumference = (pi)D/2 = (pi)R. The displacement is D = 2R. The ratio of displacement to distance = (2R)/(piR) = 2/pi= 0.63662 (rounded), independent of 'R'.
How many mm is 1 degree of rise?
A degree is an angular measure and cannot be measured in millimetres. A 1 degree rise can be interpreted as a ratio of a rise (in millimetres) per a distance of horizontal displacement.
Which ratio 2 to 1 or 5 to 1 is greater?
5 to 1 is greater
How do you calculate compression ratio?
compression ratio = compressed size / uncompressed size the ratio should be between 1 and 0 (multiply with 100 to get the ratio in percent) a ratio greater than 1 means, the compressed size is actually greater than the uncompressed size a ratio just below 1 means bad compression the lower the ratio, the better the compression
Where would you find a point with a ratio greater than 1?
Any point where x/y is greater than 1 has a ratio larger than one. For example, the point (2, 1) has a ratio of 2:1, or 2. (3, 1) has a ratio of 3, etc.
