Tag
Coordinates
Entries tagged coordinates.
2 entries
Concept
Coordinates and reference frames
A location is meaningless until you fix an origin, a set of directions, and a scale, and describing the same point from a different origin or set of directions gives different numbers for an identical place.
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ConceptPosition, distance, and displacement
Position is where something is relative to a chosen origin, distance is the total length of the path travelled, and displacement is the straight, directed change between start and end, and the three are related but never interchangeable.
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