Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Distance vs. Displacement


Distance is how far the total amount the object or thing has gone. Displacement is how far away from the starting position something is. Today, I walked .5 miles to my school in the morning, and then walked .5 more miles in the afternoon to get back home, my total walking distance was 1 mile. Today I had borrowed a notebook from a student that seats 4 meters away from me, but then I had to pass to a student that was around 1 meter closer to the owner, at the end, the notebook had 3 meters of displacement.

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