Distinguish between distance and displacement

Distinguish between distance and displacement

Distance :

  1. distance travelled by a body is defined as the actual length of the path travelled by the body irrespective of its drection of motion.

  2. Distance is a scalar quantity.

  3. Distance is always taken as positive.

  4. distance travelled by a body changes according to the path of the body.

Displacement :-

  1. Displacement of a body is define as the shortest distance from initial to final position of the body.

  2. Displacement is a vector quantily.

  3. displacement can be positive, negative or zero.

  4. Displacement of body does not depend on its path, but depends only on its initial and dinal positions.