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What is the displacement of a satellite when it makes a complete round along its circular path?

Displacement along a circular path is zero as the final and the initial points meet each other that is both the points are same.


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1

Write the SI unit of the both distance and displacement

 2

State whether displacement is a scalar or a vector quantity.

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In which one of the following cases will the distance covered and the magnitude of the displacement are not the same? Justify.

(i) A passenger in a train travels from Delhi to Kolkata.


(ii) A raindrop falling in still air.


(iii) An athlete completes one lap in a race.

 5

After studying the motion of a ball rolling on a straight line as shown in the figure.


Find its distance and displacement covered.


(i) when it rolls from P to Q and then to R (i.e., P to Q to R)


(ii) Finally comes back to P (i.e., P to P)(take, P as reference point).