Tag
Displacement
Entries tagged displacement.
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Concept
Position, 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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ConceptVectors as directed quantities
A vector is a quantity that has both a magnitude and a direction, and that combines with others by placing them tip to tail rather than by ordinary addition of numbers.
7 min