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Course: High school physics?>?Unit 1
Lesson 2: Distance, displacement, and coordinate systems- Distance and displacement introduction
- Distance and displacement in one dimension
- Position-time graphs
- Worked example: distance and displacement from position-time graphs
- Finding distance and displacement from graphs
- Distance and displacement review
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Finding distance and displacement from graphs
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Problem
A baby elephant trots in a straight line along a river. The horizontal position of the elephant in meters over time is shown below.
What is the displacement of the elephant between and ?
What is the distance traveled by the elephant between and ?