How are distance and displacement similar? How are they different?

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Gió
Jan 23, 2018

I tried this:

Explanation:

They both give us a notion about the position of an object BUT they differ; consider a swimmer in a swimming pool: he starts from one side, describes a certain distance (say 50 m) and gets back to the starting position giving a total displacement of zero.

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