A body is thrown vertically upwards with a velocity and caught back. (a) What is its displacement and distance travelled? (b) How do the displacement and distance change if its velocity of projection is halved?
Displacement is the term used to describe this shift in an object's position. Hence Displacement is 0 When an object is caught back, the distance increases by two times the height at which it was thrown. If velocity is halved, however, displacement stays the same while the distance decreases.
