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How are distance and displacement the same?
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How are distance and displacement the same?

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Distance and displacement are two quantities that may seem to mean the same thing yet have distinctly different definitions and meanings. Distance is a scalar quantity that refers to "how much ground an object has covered" during its motion.
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In the case of straight line, when the object is not repeating it's path then distance and displacement would be same.
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