Distance and Displacement in Physics: Understanding Motion

📏 Distance is the total scalar length of the actual path that an object moved, measured in meters.

➡️ Displacement is a vector that points from where the object started to where it ended, regardless of the specific path taken, also measured in meters.

🚶‍♂️ An example is given with a person's movement, where the total distance traveled is 9 meters while the displacement is 3 meters to the right.

📏 Displacement is the change in position of an object and includes both magnitude and direction.

🔺 To find displacement, we can use the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the length of the straight line connecting the initial and final positions.

🗺️ Distance is the total path traveled by an object and only considers magnitude.

📏 Distance is the total length traveled, while displacement is the straight-line distance between the starting and ending points.

➡️ Distance can be larger than or equal to displacement, but it can never be smaller.

⬆️⬇️ When dealing with motion on an axis, a zero point and positive/negative directions need to be defined.

📏 Distance and displacement are arbitrary in terms of direction and zero point.

➕ For positive displacement, the object moves in the positive direction.

➖ For negative displacement, the object moves in the negative direction.

📏 Distance is the total length traveled, which is always positive.

🚶‍♂️ Displacement is the straight-line distance between the starting and ending points, which can be positive or negative.

🔃 Displacement can add or subtract based on the direction of movement.

📏 Distance and displacement are two different concepts used to describe the motion of an object.

⬆️ Distance is a scalar quantity that represents the length of the path traveled by an object.

⇄ Displacement is a vector quantity that represents the change in position of an object, taking into account both the distance and the direction traveled.