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Why cant distance be negative when displacement can??
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Displacement is a vector so it can be positive, negative or zero.B ut look distance is a scalar it has the only magnitude so it cannot be negative. distance travelled never decreases with time.
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Displacement is a vector so it can be positive, negative or zero.B ut look distance is a scalar it has the only magnitude so it cannot be negative. distance travelled never decreases with time.
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