GCSE Physics

Distance, displacement, speed & velocity

By now you've probably realised that there's only a subtle difference between distance and displacement, and speed and velocity. Let's sum things up:

size onlysize & direction
distancedisplacement
speedvelocity

We can happily draw displacement- and velocity-time graphs, and work with them just like distance- and speed-time graphs.


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