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What is displacement? What is velocity? How are they related?

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Displacement is the shortest way between the initial and the final position. It is a vector quantity, which has both a magnitude as well as a direction.

Velocity is a measure of how fast the object moves from initial position to the final position. It is the rate of change of displacement.

Velocity=DisplacementTime



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