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Matter In Our Surroundings

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Give some points of differences between distance and displacement.

Solution

Differences between distance and displacement are:

Distance	Displacement
1. Distance is the length of the actual path traversed by a body, irrespective of its direction of motion.	1. Displacement is the shortest distance between the initial and final positions of a body in a given direction.
2. Distance between two given points may be same or different for different paths chosen.	2. Displacement between two given points is always same.
3. It is a scalar quantity.	3. It is a vector quantity.
4. Distance covered is always positive.	4. Displacement covered may be positive, negative or zero.

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