Question

What do you mean by displacement?

Answer 1

1. Displacement is defined as the change in position of the body.
2. It is also defined as the shortest distance between two points in a particular direction, from the initial point to the final point.
3. $$\begin{gathered} Displacement=finalposition-initialposition \\ S=X_f-X_i \end{gathered}$$
4. It is a vector quantity.