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Use distance to describe the shortest path between starting and ending points, and use displacement to describe the total path between starting and ending points. Measurement from your initial position to your final position is distance traveled, and the measurement of the total length of your path from the starting position to the final ...
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You can use the pythagorean theorem to find the distance between any two points on a coordinate plane as part of the distance formula. People are just mentioning that if the sheep hadn't gone West you would've needed to use the distance formula to figure out the displacement of the sheep because it wouldn't have been immediately obvious.
Distance is the length of the path taken by an object whereas displacement is the simply the distance between where the object started and where it ended up. For example, lets say you drive a car. You drive it 5 miles east and then 3 miles west.
Learn how to find the distance between two points by using the distance formula, which is an application of the Pythagorean theorem. We can rewrite the Pythagorean theorem as d=√((x_2-x_1)²+(y_2-y_1)²) to find the distance between any two points. Created by Sal Khan and CK-12 Foundation.
Distance is a scalar measure of the interval between two locations measured along the actual path connecting them. Displacement is a vector measure of the interval between two locations measured along the shortest path connecting them.
Slope tells us how steep a line is. It's like measuring how quickly a hill goes up or down. We find the slope by seeing how much we go up or down (vertical change) for each step to the right (horizontal change). If a line goes up 2 steps for every 1 step to the right, its slope is 2.
Walk through a graphical explanation of how to find the slope from two points and what it means. We can draw a line through any two points on the coordinate plane. Let's take the points ( 3 , 2 ) and ( 5 , 8 ) as an example:
