Encyclopedia > Displacement

Article Content

Displacement

Displacement is a vector quantity which expesses the length and direction of a straight line from one place to another as opposed to the scalar quantity distance which expresses only the length. The SI unit for either distance or displacement is the meter

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

French resistance

... of the French communist party[?] in May 1942. Leader Pierre Villon[?] (Not to be confused with the current political party Front National in France that is right-wing ...