วันศุกร์ที่ 30 กันยายน พ.ศ. 2554

Distance and displacement

Distance and displacement are different. When you traveled 50 km to the East and then 20 km to the West, the total distance you traveled is 70 km, but your displacement is 30 km East.
A picture explaining distance and displacement
In physics, we say that distance is a scalar and displacement is a vector. Scalar has a magnitude and vector has both a magnitude and a direction. Scalar is one dimensional and vector is two dimensional.
A car moved 100km to the East. What is its displacement? Can you answer?

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