So, did you notice a difference in scenarios 1 and 2? Was there something more/less in scenario 2? Yes, it was. Dipa says I’m around 50 km away (which is obviously a distance) and it may hardly take 1 hr to reach there.ĭisha asks her the path she is taking to reach the destination, Dipa replies by saying that she is taking the “ABC” path.ĭisha suggests her sister take the “XYZ” path to reach the spot within 15 minutes, and Dipa follows the same and reaches the destination in just 10 minutes. Scenario 2: Now, let us assume that Dipa’s cousin Disha calls Dipa to ask the time she will reach the marriage hall, as the marriage occasions are soon going to start. The distance of the object gives complete information about the path travelled by the object. The distance can never be zero or negative and it is always more than the displacement of the object. if a car travels east for 5 km and takes a turn to travel north for another 8 km, the total distance travelled by car shall be 13 km. The distance of an object can be defined as the complete path travelled by an object.
Hence, we conclude that Distance is independent of the direction, it implies that the magnitude of the path travelled is taken into account. So, here, Dipa is a distance who, irrespective of the direction, takes on her journey. Without looking at the Google Map, she believes that whichever path she goes to, she will definitely reach her cousin’s marriage. Scenario 1: Now, let us assume that a lady called “Dipa” (distance) is travelling from city A to city B to attend her cousin’s marriage. How Do We Differentiate a Distance from Displacement?įrom the above text, we got a basic understanding of the two terms that we will discuss on this page. Now, let us understand the “Concept of Distance and Displacement”: So, did you notice any difference in the statements of distance and displacement, when both the terms give a measure of “how much object covered ” ?Īlso, if they have the same meaning, then why do we study them separately and what role these terms have in Newtonian mechanics?Īnswers to all these questions will be provided in a plain manner along with illustrating examples on this page. However, displacement has the same principle as distance, the difference lies in its concept, which states that displacement tells us “how far out of place an object has covered a distance.” The concept of distance is plain, it is just the measure of “how much on a ground an object has covered” during its motion.
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