As per your syllabus, displacement (position change) is which kind of quantity?
AA dimensionless number
BA vector
CA scalar
DA complex number
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. A vector
Your syllabus: displacement Δr = r_f - r_i is a vector.
Distance traversed is a scalar.
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