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Explain with the help of an example, if the displacement of a particle is zero, then it is not necessary that the distance traversed by it is also zero.

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When object comes back to its intial position displacement is zero but the distance traversed by the object is non-zero.

Hint : It object comes back to its initial position its displacement is zero.
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