Displacement is the difference between the final and initial position of a point. It is a vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an object is"; it is the object's overall change in position.
The magnitude of displacement is the “length of the vector”.
Distance - length of path - is a scalar quantity that refers to "how much ground an object has covered" during its motion.
what is the distinction between magnitude of displacement over an interval of time and the total length of path covered by a particle over the same interval
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