Distance and Displacement

Distance is a measurement of length between two points. Displacement is a overall change in position of an object. Distance does not include a direction whereas displacement does include a direction.

[glowrheeous]

I understood this better than what my teacher taught me in online class

[dedwinx]

Its so much easier to learn when I willingly want to learn something and its actually explained good. Those are things schools fail at, they force u to "learn" (more like memorize) things u dont want to learn and most of the time teach it very boring and slow. Also after a while it gets so pointless I am in high school and have learned nothing, I am given busy work after busy work and am graded on how well I can complete that busy work. Its actually ironic yesterday in online school I didn't complete my science work because I was to busy on YT learning The Theory of General Relativity. I am very grateful that this year I have had a spiritual awakening and am beginning to understand all these this things and why society is the way it is.

[MyASMRRR]

Thanks! This was really easy to understand compared to some other videos I watched :)

[LIBRAGAMER]

Yes, this was very easy to finished the queries about distance and displacement

[tirpitzlee]

I was looking for displacement about naval vessels but I watched this instead, well atleast I learned something new

[avelinesky]

who's here because, CoronaVirus closed your school?

[jessei]

Excellent explanation thank you! -current physics student

[muhammadabdurrahman]

Wow wonderful I don't have words to say

[jillianmcdonald]

Awesome!! This helped me so much in my Physics course. Thank you!!!!

[czirenbless]

my daughter say it was a clear explanation.Thanks😁

[scottybain]

Correct me if I am wrong, but in your last example, isnt distance and displacement the other way around? i.e. you have travelled a distance of 544km but in the end you are displaced 400km North from your point of origin? Using your explanation, if you were to shut your eyes and open them again once you have arrived, assuming you survived the trip, you would be 400km north of where you started?

[poopypoo]

Thank you so much! I was having trouble with this concept for science, and this helped explained things so much :D

[Furious_Farts]

This was extremely helpful and well explained

[NipinBallantyne]

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[chitranpl]

Thank you so much 👍 I couldn't understand at all and now l am very clear

[natsukisubaru]

problem that i dont understand is that, for example, if it takes me 10 sec to run from point A to point B.(assume that at point A=0sec, 0m & at point B= 10sec, 30m) and do note that i ran in a straight line . if we were to plot this on a Cartesian plane then wouldn't the (displacement) or shortest distance AB follows phytagoras theorem? displacement or shortest distance should be the length of AB as i ran in a straight line right? then why do we calculate the displacement as Xfinal-Xinitial= 30m-0m= 10m . Why not follow phytagoras theory, where
displacement^2 = (30-0)^2 +( 10-0)^2
its very confusing . i ask my lecturer .and he bluntly said he doesnt know. imagine that even someone with a dual master's degree in physic doesnt know why . . .

[farzanakitchen]

Thanks! Maximum I had watch this 👆3 time😂⌚

[marcuslin]

Hi I just want to ask. is displacement always measured in a straight direction?

[evansbge]

Can you correct the last example and clear up the errors in distance and displacement in the London to Sudbury example? It ruins some good ideas from the previous ones.

[ahmmydk]

Thankysm for this. It's really helpful.