What is distance?

What is displacement?

A person walks 5 meters east, then 5 meters west. What is their total distance traveled?

A person walks 5 meters east, then 5 meters west. What is their displacement?

Which of these is a vector quantity?

Which of these is a scalar quantity?

A car drives 10 km north, then 5 km east. What is its approximate displacement from the starting point?

A runner completes one lap around a 400m track, returning to the starting point. What is the runner's displacement?

Imagine you walk 3 km north, then 4 km east. What's the shortest distance back to where you started (displacement)?

A bird flies 10 meters up into a tree, then flies 5 meters down. What is the total distance it has flown?