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Objective:
1. Describe the motion of an
object in terms of distance it
travelled
2. Differentiate distance from
displacement based on given
diagram
1. What have you noticed about
the distance and the
displacement in the given
examples above?
2. When can displacement be
equal to distance?
3. Can displacement be greater
than distance? Why?
4. What if the ball , the car and
the dog in the illustration go back
to their starting positions, what
will be their displacements?
Abstraction:
1. How will you describe the motion
of an object in terms of the distance
travelled?
2. In what way distance and
displacement differ from each other?
3. When does a quantity can be
considered scalar? Vector?
Displacement Distance
tells you how far you Calculate each and every
are from the starting step that is covered by
point the object or person
Distance between you Actual path covered
and the starting point
Shortest interval Measure of area which is
connecting the initial and between the points of origin
final points that is a or the starting point and
straight line ending point of a location
Distance between the Interval between two
initial point and final points connecting the
point of an object path
Vector quantity which has Scalar quantity that
both magnitude and refers to how much
direction ground on object has
-the distance a person is covered during its motion
away from its actual
point on the starting
point.
DISTANCE
• Actual path from starting point to
ending point
• Is a scalar quantity
• Magnitude (how far)
• No direction required
ex. distance= 25 m
DISPLACEMENT
• Is the shortest distance between
starting point and end point
• A vector quantity with magnitude
and direction
ex. displacement= 25 m, East
FINDING DISPLACEMENT
We talk about displacement when we only care about the
starting and ending position of an object, not how it got
•
there.
0
𝐷𝑖𝑠𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡=∆ ×
A baby elephant trots in a straight line
along a river. The horizontal position of the
elephant in meters over time is shown
below.
What is the displacement of
the elephant between 0s and
16s?
Answer: 9m
What s the distance
travelled by the elephant
between 0s and 16s?
Answer: 9m
What is the displacement of the
car between 0s and 24s?