Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
The shortest distance between two places is ______.
Advertisements
Solution
The shortest distance between two places is displacement.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
Under what conditions can a body travel a certain distance and yet its resultant displacement be zero ?
Figure given below shows a velocity-time graph for a car starting from rest. The graph has three parts AB, BC and CD.
Compare the distance travelled in part BC with the distance travelled in part AB.
From the displacement – time graph shown given below calculate :
- Velocity between 0 – 2 s.
- Velocity between 8 s – 12 s.
- Average velocity between 5 s – 12 s.
Is distance covered during nth second more than the distance covered in n seconds?
Exercise Problems.
An athlete completes one round of a circular track of diameter 200 m in 40 s. What will be the distance covered and the displacement at the end of 2 m and 20 s?
Give one example where the displacement is zero but the distance travelled is not zero.
In which of the following cases of motions, the distance moved and the magnitude of displacement are equal?
A scalar quantity has ______.
If the displacement-time graph of a particle is parallel to the time axis, the velocity of the particle is ______.
Displacement magnitude can be greater than the distance traveled by the object.
