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3 years ago

How do you find total displacement

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Monica [59]3 years ago

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That's actually a lot easier than finding total <u><em>distance.</em></u>

To find displacement, you only have to know where the trip started from, and where it ended. It doesn't matter what route was followed to actually travel from the start to the finish. The displacement is the straight-line distance and direction between those two points.

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