Explain the difference between position and distance.

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Karissa Espinoza

Biology

6 May, 01:57

Explain the difference between position and distance.

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Grant Gill · Answer 1

Position is the location of the object (whether it's a person, a ball, or a particle) at a given moment in time. Displacement is the difference in the object's position from one time to another ... Displacement is a vector quantity (direction matters), where as distance is a scalar (only the amount matters).