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What is the difference between Distance and Displacement?
Refer to:
Archimedes, from way back in the day (~2 & a 1/4 thousand years),
its a classical 'Eureka!' moment.
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"
Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).
Sorry, its the last thing you need when you ask a question. I apologise.
Classic English sarcasm, its comedy gold!
Just 'don't throw the baby out with the bathwater'...
Or am I being too 'golden mean'? L.O.L..
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"
Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).
What is the difference between Distance and Displacement?
Displacement is a vector, distance is a scalar. So if you walk three sides of a unit square then the distance covered is 3 units, and the displacement is one unit in some direction.
A dictionary can answer this question relatively quickly, I think.
Yes, & even if what the OP was actually asking (cryptically trying to get at?)
was bore x stroke (distance) ratio & swept volume (displacement).
Albeit the ancient Greeks had that one worked out too, of course...
"Well, we knocked the bastard off!"
Ed Hilary on being 1st to top Mt Everest,
(& 1st to do a surface traverse across Antarctica,
in good Kiwi style - riding a Massey Ferguson farm
tractor - with a few extemporised mod's to hack the task).
