Distance is not always displacement - Missile Systems | Zoonk

Distance is not always displacement - Missile Systems | Zoonk

Distance is not always displacement

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A clean whiteboard-style diagram showing one motion example with three separate clues: a dot on a number line labeled “position,” a highlighted winding path labeled “distance,” and a straight start-to-finish arrow labeled “displacement.”

Three different questions

To describe motion, keep three ideas separate: where it is, how much path it covered, and how far it ended from where it started. They sound similar, but they answer different questions.