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Define displacement and distance.

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Distance is the actual path length travelled by an object in the given interval of time during the motion. It is a positive scalar quantity.
Displacement is the difference between the final and initial positions of the object in a given interval of time. It can also be defined as the shortest distance between these two positions of the object. It is a vector quantity.
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