magnitude but no direction. Displacement refers to the shortest distance between Distance refers to the length of the entire path the object travelled. It has a the objects two positions, like the distance between its point of origin and its point or destination, no matter what path it took to get to that destination. It has a magnitude and direction. broken lines) and displacement represented by continuous lines). The figure below illustrates the difference between distance (represented by figure & Distance and displacement
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B is the shortest path of the way