Question

A car moves 100m due east and then 25m due wets, (a) What is the distance covered by the car? (b) What is its displacement?

Answer 1

$\left(1\right)$ Distance travel$=100+25=125m$

$\left(2\right)$ Displacement $=100-25=75m$

Distance is the total movement of an object without any regard to direction. We can define distance as how much ground an object has covered despite its starting or ending point.

Distance is the total movement of an object without any regard to direction. We can define distance as how much ground an object has covered despite its starting or ending point.