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प्रश्न
The shortest distance between two places is ______.
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उत्तर
The shortest distance between two places is displacement.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
What is the difference between distance travelled by a body and its displacement ? Explain with the
help of a diagram.
What can you say about the nature of motion of a body if its displacement-time graph is A straight line inclined to the time axis with an obtuse angle?
Figure shows the displacement-time graph of two vehicles A and B moving along a straight road. Which vehicle is moving faster? Give reason.

Figure (a) shows the velocity-time graph for the motion of a body. Use it to find the displacement of the body at t = 1 s, 2 s, 3 s and 4 s, then draw on Figure (b), the displacement-time graph for it.
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A car travels a distance 100 m with constant acceleration and average velocity of 20 ms-1. The final velocity acquired by the car is 25 ms-1.
Find
(i) The initial velocity.
(ii) Acceleration of the car.
Calculate the distance and displacement in the following case:
Give one example where the displacement is zero but the distance travelled is not zero.
A particle is moving in a circular pattern of radius r. The displacement after half a circle would be ______.
An ant moves from one corner of a room diagonally to the opposite corner. If the dimensions of the hall are 8m x 6m, the displacement of the ant is ______.
Choose the correct option.


