Tag
Distance
Entries tagged distance.
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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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ConceptThe Pythagorean relationship
In any right triangle, the area of the square on the hypotenuse always equals the combined area of the squares on the other two sides, a fact provable by rearranging area rather than by measuring it.
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