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If a bird flies from its nest to the ground and back are the distance and displacment the sam
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If a bird flies from its nest to the ground and back are the distance and displacment the sam

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No. They are different. The bird's distance for that period of time is double the height of the nest above the ground. His displacement for the same time is zero ... the length between the start point and end point.
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