To learn the difference between displacement and distance, we should identify what displacement and distance are in the first place. Distance is how far or long you have traveled, as you may have known. Distance is a scalar quantity, meaning that it gives you the distance or magnitude of how much an object has moved. However, it does not give us any information on what direction the object is moving, such as if it is moving right or left. An example of a scalar quantifies 6 meters. A block can move 6 meters, but where it is moving remains unidentified.
A displacement is a type of vector quantity, which gives us information on how much an object has moved and what direction is it moving. For example, 5 meters to the right would be a vector quantity because it includes that is it moving 5 meters and that it is moving to the right.
So, the difference between displacement and distance is that displacement includes the magnitude of an object and the direction it is moving, whereas distance only includes the magnitude of an object.
What is the distance between nothing and something?
Would you mind rephrasing the question? By nothing do you mean nitrogen and oxygen and by something an object? If you are trying to ask whether or not distance (and time) exist in an empty universe, then it is impossible to tell for sure. (Here is the article I read to help answer this possible question: https://www.askamathematician.com/2012/01/q-do-time-and-distance-exist-in-a-completely-empty-universe/) Also, distance and time require references to make sense, and referencing nothing would be sort of confusing.
Isn’t nothing is something that does not exist?
Thank you, but isn’t nothing just something that is nothing that don’t exist? If I offended someone here, I apologize for my doing. All I know about nothing is that nothing is nothing, not even time or distance. So deep, but thanks for the answer…..sir?
Alan Turing is gay
Never knew this, but now I know that he was arrested for it. Thanks for the info!