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Clarify the differences

Distance and displacement

i. Distance is a scalar quantity that refers to "how much length an object has covered" during its motion. And, displacement is a vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an object is"; It is the object's overall change in position.


ii. It depends only on magnitude not on direction. Displacement depends on both magnitude as well as direction.


iii. The diagram is given below:



In the above diagram,


AB is the distance


ACDB is the distance travelled by the object.


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