Answers to AQA GCSE Displacement and Distance
Practice Questions
1. Define the terms distance and displacement
Distance is how far an object travels or moves.
Displacement how far an object travels or moves in a certain direction.
2. Is distance a scalar or vector quantity?
Scalar
3. Is displacement a scalar or vector quantity?
Vector
4. Explain why the displacement for the football in the above diagrams is 105m, but the distance travelled is 250m.
Displacement is a single straight arrow in one direction. This will be shorter than the total distance travelled because the object changed its direction several times during its journey.
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