{"id":47415,"date":"2024-06-20T20:01:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=47415"},"modified":"2024-06-20T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T20:01:19","slug":"physics-position-and-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/physics-position-and-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Physics: position and displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring physics, you encounter definitions. The tutor distinguishes between position and displacement.<\/h2>\n<p>\nPosition is the location of an object, whereas displacement is change to its location. Therefore, to know an object&#8217;s position after a displacement, one must also know its position before.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/University_Physics\/University_Physics_(OpenStax)\/Book%3A_University_Physics_I_-_Mechanics_Sound_Oscillations_and_Waves_(OpenStax)\/03%3A_Motion_Along_a_Straight_Line\/3.02%3A_Position_Displacement_and_Average_Velocity\">phys.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring physics, you encounter definitions. The tutor distinguishes between position and displacement. Position is the location &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/physics-position-and-displacement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Physics: position and displacement<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3199,3200],"class_list":["post-47415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","tag-displacement","tag-position"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47421,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47415\/revisions\/47421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}